Building record 3980/8/4 - Barn Adjoining Nos.3 & 3A Desborough Road

{1} Barn, mid and late C18, with late C19 alterations. Brick with plain tile roof. Rubble plinth, coped gables, single brick ridge stack, 4 unequal bays. Street side has to left, 2 square pitch holes and above, a C20 casement and another pitch hole. All have wooden lintels. To right, 2 C19 glazing bar casements, each flanked to right by a small square casement. Rear has to left a 3-light C20 casement and to its right, 3 blocked openings with wooden lintels. To the right, a C20 garage opening. Above, loading door flanked by single pitch holes, all with wooden lintels. Interior not inspected. Included for group value.

{2} Mid & late C18th barn with late C19th alterations.

{3} Use of The Nunnery as inn or farm suggested by presence of barns & stables dated c.1700.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 9/66 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H13 p.44 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

<3> GIGGINS B.L., 1988, Untitled Source, (part checked) (Report). SNN44954.

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Sep 25 2020 3:08PM