Building record 2686/0/19 - Sundial Cottage

A 17th century house with 19th century additions situated on the northern side of Main Street. The building is constructed of regular coursed limestone with ashlar bands and dressings with a double pitch Collyweston slate roof. The house is single story with an attic range lit by three hipped dormer windows with three light casement windows. The central bays of the south facing front are constructed of ashlar and break forward as they originally lead up to gabled eaves dormers. The left side of the central bay has a door with a moulded surround and a four-centred arch that is flanked by two blocked single light windows. To the right is a tripartite sash window set within a former stone mullon window frame. The bays to the far left and right have three light casement windows under wooden lintels. The rear has gabled and hipped extensions.

{1} Shown as Chareen on Ordnance Survey map. House. C17 modified C19. Regular coursed limestone with ashlar banding and dressings. Collyweston slate roof. 3-unit plan, with rear wing. Single storey with attic. Main front of 4 bays, 3-window range. Centre 2 bays are ashlar, and break forward separately. These projections were originally intended to continue at roof level to form gabled eaves dormers; probably removed C19. Bay to right of centre has C19 tripartite sash window set in and breaking through a moulded stone surround, formerly a stone mullion window. Chamfered plinth below window and moulded string course above. Similar tripartite sash window, to far right, has moulded stone surround with cornice over. C19 casement window, to far left, has similar surround with cornice over. Small single-light window, to left of centre, has single-light C19 casement window, above, set under eaves. Bay to left of centre has a 6-panelled door with a moulded stone surround and 4-centred arch-head. Flanking single-light windows, with moulded stone surrounds, now blocked. Chamfered plinth below and moulded stone cornice above. 3 hipped eaves dormers with C19 casement windows. Ashlar gable parapets and ashlar ridge and end stacks. Left gable has an inscribed sundial. Rear elevation has a projecting wing, to left, with C19 casement windows and a C19 oven, with hipped roof, to right. Fragments of chamfered masonry reset to centre of range. Interior not inspected but noted as having ogee moulded spine beam in centre room with a chip carved rosette in the soffitt. Plank door with moulded battens and original hinges. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p174)

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{5} [Former list description] A 17th century house with 19th century additions. The building is constructed of regular coursed limestone with ashlar bands and dressings with a double pitch Collyweston slate roof. The house is single story with an attic range lit by three hipped dormer windows with three light casement windows. The central bays of the south facing front are constructed of ashlar and break forward as they originally lead up to gabled eaves dormers. The left side of the central bay has a door with a moulded surround and a four-centred arch that is flanked by two blocked single light windows. To the right is a tripartite sash window set within a former stone mullon window frame. The bays to the far left and right have three light casement windows under wooden lintels. The rear has gabled and hipped extensions. The building is Listed at Grade II as was fomerly listed under the name Sundial House and is shown as Chareen on some OS mapping.

Historic England, SUNDIAL COTTAGE, YARWELL, BF084313 (Archive). SNN115198.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 15/228 (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. 174/11 (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.

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