Building record 3907/2/4 - No.27 Hall Yard (Manor Cottage) & House Attached to West of No.27

{1} House, originally part of a courtyard range on a moated site. Probably C16 extended in circa C17 and remodelled in C18 and C20. Coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, rendered front and back; with plain tile roof with stone capped gable ends; east end coursed ironstone rubble, extended in brick and with thatched roof with gable ends. Brick gable end stacks. PLAN: the earlier west range was originally the south side of a range of buildings around a courtyard within a moat. It was probably wholly or partly 2 storeys and open to the roof and converted into a house in C18. The circa C17 extension on the right (east) end appears to have been extended again and converted into a 2 room plan cottage in C18. Rear wings added in C20. EXTERIOR: 2 storey 4 window original range to left and 1 storey and attic 2 window cottage extension on right. C20 casements. Late C20 conservatory on right of original range and blocked central doorway on right hand range. The original range has ashlar buttress ers with weathering and a carved stone gable kneeler. C20 gable-ended brick wing at rear of original range. INTERIOR: Original range, the smaller right hand room has some large unchamfered joists exposed and large fireplace with cambered chamfered timber bressumer; and 5-bay roof with large tie-beam trusses, straight collars, clasped side purlins and complete set of coupled rafters. The cottage extension has chamfered axial beam in right hand room with runout stops, large fireplace with boxed-in bressumer; attics ceiled but large waney side purlins exposed; winder stairs between rooms.

{3} A circa C18 Broughton Park Estate map (said to have been drawn by the Second Duke of Montagu) shows the moat and a complete range of buildings around the courtyard.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 15/342 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), K1/4 p.157 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

<3> Second Duke of Montagu, 1750 (circa), Boughton Park Estate, (unchecked) (Map). SNN105258.

Record last edited

May 2 2012 4:59PM