Building record 2416/0/251 - Nos 1 to 14 (consec), Mill Road

This is a continuous and wavering row of 1 storey rubble-built cottages with steep stone slate roofs stepping down after each 2 or 3. Each cottage has 1 or 2 hipped dormers, some being double fronted. Probably date to the earlier 17th century

{2}This is a continuous and wavering row of 1 storey rubble-built cottages with steep stone slate roofs stepping down after each 2 or 3. Each cottage has 1 or 2 hipped dormers, some being double fronted. All have very plain low doorways and simple casement windows. Several have old stone chimney stacks, a number brick or brick repaired. No 4 lies at right angles to the road behind No5. (There is a passageway through No 3); it is a full 2 storeys high and its steep gable rises clear above the roof o No 5. At least 1 mullioned window survives. Nos 3 and 5 (together on road front) each have 1 gabled dormer (the only exceptions in the whole row) and there is a moulded dripstone above a small window left of the doorway to No 5. Probably dating from earlier C17, they all appear to be in sound structural condition. As the first mass of building met on entering Oundle from the south (Thrapston Road) these cottages assume greater importance than what is already theirs, by virtue of their general character, overall form and group effect. Nos 1 to 14 (consec) form a group.
{3} Photographs
{4} The 'priest house' is located to the rear of a row of single story 17th century cottages along Mill Road. The gable end of the building is listed as part of this row of cottages, but would appear to pre-date them. The building is believed to have formed a wing of a manor house which is believed to have stood on this site.

{5} Drawn record of part of row of small town houses. Drawing shows two town houses apparently knocked into one. Also seems to be a discrepency between the west elevation drawing and the ground floor plan. One assumes the elevational drawing (west front) is correct as this fronts the road and the property was almost certainly once split.,

{7} Fifteen undated photos;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 1/66 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H16 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Ballinger J., 2000, The 'Priest House', 4 Mill Road, Oundle, (unchecked) (Photographic prints (COL)). SNN100558.

<4> Ballinger J., 2000, The 'Priest House', 4 Mill Road, Oundle, (unchecked) (Report). SNN100557.

<5> 1998, PLAN, (unchecked) (Plan). SNN48227.

<6> Hall D.N., 1960-1999, Rockingham Forest Project: Archaeological Sites Recorded by David Hall, (unchecked) (Database). SNN102279.

<7> Photographs of buildings in Oundle (Photographs). SNN114658.

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Mar 29 2023 4:19PM