Building record 2416/0/72 - No. 6 East Road

Adjoins No 4. Late C17 or early C18. Low house of 2 storeys in roughly coursed rubble with fairly steep stone slate roof with verge on east gable and good stone chimney stack on top. Originally combined with No 4 from about 1710.

{1} Adjoins No 4. Late C17 or early C18. Low house of 2 storeys in roughly coursed rubble with fairly steep stone slate roof with verge on east gable and good stone chimney stack on top. 2 hipped dormers. 2 windows to both floors, hung sashes in nearly flush moulded wooden cases, wooden lintel. Traces of 1 other window walled up. Entrance in west gable end, glazed door, moulded wooden case. 1 window to 1st floor as on road front. Small walled garden at road side. Nos 2 to 6 (even) together with t e barn adjoining No 4 form a group with No 21, St Osyth's Lane.

{4} Heritage Assessment undertaken after No 4 and No 6 were brought back into the same ownership. A late 17th-century cottage was joined in 1710 to a four-square gentrified building comprising four polite rooms and a service range. All three progressed as a genteel residence with service wings to either side. Around 1730 some alterations to the fenestration left the frontage more private and unified the interiors with a notable range of panelling. Just before 1810, to judge by the neat and sensible stair detailing and the evidence of the historic maps, a rear wing was added to the service range, probably to ensure servants to live in. The buildings were the subject of sales in the 1880s but not formally separated off until c1895.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 1/94 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Hall D.N., 1960-1999, Rockingham Forest Project: Archaeological Sites Recorded by David Hall, (unchecked) (Database). SNN102279.

<4> Prentice, J & Soden, I, 2019, A Heritage Asset Survey of Lime House and 6 East Road, Oundle, Northamptonshire (Report). SNN112429.

<5> Crank, N. (Editor), 2020, South Midlands Archaeology (50), p. 80 (Journal). SNN112426.

Record last edited

Apr 14 2021 3:30PM