Building record 2790/0/26 - Broughton House

An early 17th century house with later 17th century extension and further alterations during the 19th and 20th centuries.

{1} House. Early C17 extend later C17, C19 and C20. Squared coursed limestone and lias, part banded. Collyweston slate roof. Originally 2-unit plan, now T-shape. 2 storeys. Elevation to Main Street has gable end abutting road to right. One-window range, to left, has C19 casement, under wood lintel, to ground floor. Return wall of cross-wing has similar one-window range to ground and first floors. 6-panel door, to left, under stone lintel. Former lean-to attached to right of gable end is now raised in brick and with a flat roof. Blocked 2-light stone mullion cellar window and single-light window with moulded stone surround. Ashlar gable parapets and stone stack at ridge. C19 and C20 single-storey extensions to right. Interior not inspected but noted as having an open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer, with pyramid stops.

{3} Broughton House, two storeys, coursed rubble and sandstone, is now L-shaped. Parapeted gables have roll finials. It consists of a two-cell house, possibly of class 3b plan, of early 17th-century date which was extended to N. by an unheated one-room wing later in the century; the fireplace has a mantel beam with pyramid stops. The gable wall of the later wing is in banded masonry. A lean-to, added in the late 17th-century fills the W. angle between the extension and the main range; it has a cellar with a blocked ovolo-moulded window and on the ground floor a single-light window with cyma and ovolo-moulded frame.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 19/213 (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.170 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Woodnewton (Photographs). SNN114311.

<5> Historic England, BROUGHTON HOUSE, WOODNEWTON, BF084291 (Archive). SNN114751.

Record last edited

Feb 20 2023 1:56PM