Building record 2838/0/10 - Wood Cottage

17th century house with thatch roof and T-shaped plan.

{1} House. C17. Squared coursed limestone with thatch roof. T-shape plan. Single storey with attic. Main front is a 2-window range, with gable cross-wing breaking forward to left. Leaded casements under wood lintels. Window to first floor right is under eyebrow dormers. Central, 6-panel part-glazed, door, under wood lintel, with rustic porch. Stone stack at apex of cross-wing and brick stack at end. Interior not inspected but noted as having remains of open fireplace.

{3} Wood Cottage, one storey and attics, thatched, L-shaped plan. The N. room with a wide fireplace in the gable wall, with recesses and a'seat to one side, is 17th-century. The two-room cross wing may also be 17th-century but the internal arrangement is later.

{4} Building present in 1778.

{5} Four undated photos;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 18/17 (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.15 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77384.

<4> 1778, Apethorpe Inclosure Plan 15, (unchecked) (Map). SNN102373.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Apethorpe (Photographs). SNN111852.

<6> Historic England, WOOD COTTAGE, APETHORPE, BF084010 (Archive). SNN114905.

Record last edited

Mar 27 2023 11:26AM