Building record 1966/0/4 - No. 9 Station Road

{1} House. Probably C17 with extensive later alteration but retaining re-used medieval windows. Coursed limestone rubble with some ironstone quoins, C20 interlocking concrete tile roof, brick ridge and end stacks. 2 storeys, 3-window range. Front has central C20 door with 2 C20 windows to left and one to right at ground floor, all with wooden lintels. Front, however, is of less interest than the rear, which has 4 re-used probably C15 windows: 2 to ground floor flanking a door in a chamfered opening with a wooden lintel, and with a chamfered fire window, now blocked, to right; and 2 to first floor flanking a C19 sash window with wooden lintel. The first floor windows are of 4, originally cusped lights in a square surround, with straight-sided blind panels above each light. Ground floor windows each have a label and were originally of 2 cusped lights in a square surround (the cusping is concealed in the right-hand windows but still inside in the left-hand one) but have been subdivided by chamfered mullions to form 4 lights. Stumps of original secondary mullions rising from the head of each light reveal however that the present ground floor windows originally each had an upper part of 4 lights and suggest that each pair of ground and first floor windows may originally have formed a single whole. It is interesting to speculate whence the sophisticated panel-traceried windows thus formed might have originated - Burton Latimer Hall, perhaps, before the early C17 rebuilding? The internal face of each window is plain apart from a raised central fillet.

{3} Stone building with opposing doors suggesting the possible existence of a screens passage prior to extensive late Victorian/Edwardian alterations. Very unusual C16th windows which may not have originally belonged to this property. Exterior well-preserved - possibly because of adjacent terraced property built in close proximity and over hanging eaves. Photographs included.

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

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), K1/4 p.23 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

<3> Ellison, M., 1997, SMR Report Form, (checked) (SMR Report Form). SNN49280.

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