Building record 3980/7/1 - No.11 Desborough Road

Farmhouse, now a house. 1631, refenestrated C18, rear range, 1849. Ironstone with limestone dressings and Welsh slate roofs.

{1} Farmhouse, now a house. 1631, refenestrated C18, rear range, 1849. Ironstone with limestone dressings and Welsh slate roofs. Plinth, coped gables, 2 C19 rendered brick valley stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays, double range plan. South front has a central gabled porch with quoins, chamfered flat headed doorway with keystone and coped gable with finial. In the gable, a datestone inscribed "1631". On either side a 10/10 glazing bar sash, and above, 3 smaller 6/6 sashes, all with keystoned flat heads. To left a full height glazing bar sash. To its right, a similar small sash and a smaller leaded casement. Above a glazing bar sash and to right a 3-light leaded casement, both with keystoned flat arches. In each gable peak, a datestone, that to right inscribed "1849". West double gable has to left a C19 3-light mullioned and transomed casement with keystoned segmental head. To right, a C19 glazing bar sash, and above, 2 similar sashes all with keystoned flat heads. Rear has a central C20 lean-to porch flanked to left by a C20 casement and a 2-light iron framed leaded casement. Above, 2 C19 plain sashes.

{2} 2-storey house built in 1631; re-windowed in C18th; rear range dated to 1849;,

{3} Nunnery House at SP81368131 is dated to 1849; [sometimes confused with The Nunnery];

{4} Complex of buildings shown on 3rd edition map.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 9/69 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H13 p.45 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP88SW25 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<4> , 1926, MAP, (checked) (Map). SNN45572.

Record last edited

Nov 15 2019 1:51PM