Building record 1966/3/1 - No. 75 Kettering Road (Home Farmhouse & Wall Attached to Right)

{1} Farmhouse. Two separate, probably late C17 builds, linked and altered late C18. Limestone with ironstone bands, asbestos slate roofs with coped gables, stone end stacks with brick shafts. Front block of 2 loft storeys and attic, 2-window range. 3-light small-paned casements, to ground with ironstone lintels and flush keystones and to first floor with wooden lintels. Single-light attic window to each gable end, that to right probably an original gudgeon-hung leaded casement. Rear block originally one storey and attic, roof raised to form 2 storeys, the ground floor with a board door, a 3-light casement window to left and a single-light window to right, all with wooden lintels. Two 3-light casement windows to first floor. Short section with lean-to roof linking 2 main blocks has a panelled and part-glazed door with overlight and pentice hood and a 2-light small-paned casement window with wooden lintel above. One-storey addition to left of rear block. A remarkably complete historic interior: the front block has an inglenook fireplace with salt cupboard to ground floor left hand room, chamfered beams, raised cruck roof construction (with carpenter's marks), plaster to attic, chimney breast inscribed with sets of initials, one dated 1778; the link range contains a pegged staircase in straight flights with square newels, closed string and turned balusters; the rear block has raised cruck roof construction and contains a service stair, chamfered and stopped spine beam and bressumer to inglenook fireplace in left hand room, and a part of probably C18 pantries with original board doors, lath ventilators and interior fittings. 2-panel doors and an unusual number of probably C18 fitted cupboards throughout. Wall attached to right of limestone and ironstone with pantile coping.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 20/4 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), K1/4 p.15 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Burton Latimer (Photographs). SNN112160.

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Oct 28 2020 12:51PM