Building record 2686/0/18 - Mullions

A 17th century house that was altered during the 18th century and remodelled during the 19th century is situated on the southern side of Main Street. The house can be divided into two builds. The right range is predominantly 17th century in date and has a two story canted bay window with stone mullion windows and ashlar parapets and kneelers. To its right is a three light stone mullion window beneath a gabled dormer with ashlar parapets. The left range is 18th and 19th century and has a three window range of casements at the eaves and two, three light casements under wooden lintels on the ground floor.

{1} House. C17, C18 and C19. Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Originally 2-unit plan with cross passage. Single storey with attic, and 2 storeys. 5-window range. 2-window range, to right, is C17 and has a 2-storey, 5-light, canted bay window with ovolo moulded stone mullions and ashlar gablet with parapets and kneelers. Similar 3-light stone mullion window, to ground floor right, and similar attic window set in stone eaves dormer with ashlar parapets and kneelers. All stone mullion windows have hood moulds. 3-window range, to left, of C19 casement windows under eaves at first floor. 2 plain C20 casement windows at ground floor under renewed wood lintels. C20 door, to centre, has C17 moulded stone surround with square-head. Eaves on 2 levels, ashlar gable parapets, to left, and brick and ashlar stacks at ridge and end. 2-light stone mullion windows to rear. Interior: rooms to left and right of entrance have open fireplaces with bressumers. Cross-passage rooms at back of central stack. 3 bays, to left of main front, remodelled C19 and subdivided to form 2 dwellings. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p175)

{4} Undated photo.

{5} [Former list description] A 17th century house that was altered during the 18th century and remodelled during the 19th century. The house can be divided into two builds. The right range is predominantly 17th century in date and has a two story canted bay window with stone mullion windows and ashlar parapets and kneelers. To its right is a three light stone mullion window beneath a gabled dormer with ashlar parapets. The left range is 18th and 19th century and has a three window range of casements at the eaves and two, three light casements under wooden lintels on the ground floor. The building is Listed at Grade II.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 14/238 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 175/20 (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Yarwell (Photographs). SNN114368.

<5> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, District of Listing: East Northamptonshire. 23-May-1967 Amended 12-Oct-1988 (Report). SNN112993.

<6> Historic England, MULLIONS, YARWELL, BF084322 (Archive). SNN115209.

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