Building record 6141/0/5 - Manor Farmhouse and attached outbuildings

Farmhouse of two C16 builds, and dated 1721. Coursed squared limestone with Collyweston stone slate roof, coped gables and moulded stone ridge and end stacks.

{1} Farmhouse of two C16 builds, and dated 1721. Coursed squared limestone with Collyweston stone slate roof, coped gables and moulded stone ridge and end stacks. 2 storeys. Chamfered plinth. Central porch with round-headed doorway with hood-mould, studded door. 3-light stone mullioned windows above with round-headed lights. Iron-framed gudgeon-hung casement openings. Projecting wing to left has similar windows to ground and first floors, that to ground floor longer (perhaps lengthened), and origina gable end stack. Lean-to between porch and wing. Range to right of porch rebuilt 1721 (datestone in gable end) has 3-light square-headed hollow-chamfered stone mullioned windows, longer to ground floor. Low range of outbuildings attached to right. L-shaped wing to rear, probably earlier C16, has small one- and 2-light stone mullioned windows with 4-centred heads to lights, and a tiny reset cusped light. Interior: cross-passage plan. Ground-floor room to left of cross-passage has wide late C16 chamfered segmental fireplace now incorporating a bolection moulded chimneypiece brought C20 from Boughton House, where it may originally have been intended for the "unfinished wing". Late C16 roof survives over this part: truss arch braced to tie with queen struts to collar, wind-braced. C16 moulded stone chimneypiece recently uncovered in room above porch. Original plan obscured by later alterations.

{3} SP 8905 8553: Manor House.

{4} The manor house at Little Oakley is probably 1550-60.

{5} Near the church, on Little Oakley, is the manor house, now very decayed but appearing by the doors and window cases to be very old. Between the manor house and the church is a ruinous building facing north and south and once covered with lead, immemorially called the chapel, although there are no remains to indicate its use as such.

{6} A farmhouse in good condition. There are no surface remains of the so-called "chapel". See photographs.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 11/199 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), J12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1955, 1950s/60s Ordnance Survey 6 Inch Mapping Series (SP44NE), OS 6" 1958 (Map). SNN61128.

<4> PEVSNER N., 1961, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, Page 283 (Series). SNN113374.

<5> Bridges J., 1791, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, Page 327 (Book). SNN77326.

<6> Baird, J, 1969, Field Investigators Comments, 22-JUL-1969 (Note). SNN111452.

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