Building record 1966/0/3 - The Yews, Kettering Road

{1} House, now old people's home. Mid C18 with later alterations. Coursed limestone rubble with ironstone bands, slate roofs with coped gables and C19 yellow brick ridge and end stacks. 2 storeys, 4-window range. Central C19 white-painted porch. C20 sash windows, those to ground floor with rendered surrounds and keystones, those to first floor with gauged stone heads. Parallel wing to rear, the twin gables facing the street, linked to form a parapet, and the gable end of the rear wing having 3 sash windows (narrow, wide, narrow) to the ground floor and a single sash window above, all with lintels with flush keystones. Interior not inspected, but believed to contain Victorian Gothic carved fireplace and panelling brought in during 1920's.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 20/19 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), K1/4 p.20 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

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Jan 14 2013 10:11AM