Building record 2853/0/86 - No.28 and attached steps, West Street

A house that was built in 1845 located on the northern side of West Street. The building is constructed of squared coursed limestone and ashlar dressings with a double pitch Welsh slate roof with end chimney stacks. The building is three storeys high with a cellar and has rusticated quoins and a raised band between the ground and first floor. The street front has a three window range of unhorned sash windows with architraves and plain aprons, the windows on the second floor are reduced. The house has a central door with a rectangular fanlight and a moulded stone surround with a flat hood above. The flight of steps to the door has horizontally channelled ashlar side walls. Later 19th century alterations to the house include a lean-to extension to the left.

{1} House. Datestone W.C. 1845 for William Cunnington. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2-unit plan with lean-to additions. 3 storeys with cellars. 3-window range. Central, 6-panelled, door with rectangular fanlight, has moulded stone eared surround and flat-stone hood, with brackets. 6-paned, unhorned, sash windows with moulded stone eared architraves enclosing plain aprons, below ground floor and first floor windows. Window reduce at second floor. Horizontally hanelled ashlar plinth with 2 boarded cellar windows. Rusticated quoins and raised band between ground and first floor. Ashlar end stacks, one with datestone. Flight of steps to front door, with horizontally channelled ashlar side walls. Lean-to extension to left has C19 casement window under wood lintel. Rear elevation has C19 casement windows and arch-head stair window. Interior: hall noted as having staircase with stick balustrade, rising around a narrow open well. William Cunnington was a local Coal Merchant, Maltser, Miller and Brewer. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: 103)

{4} Undated photo;

<1> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, p.75 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN40683.

<2> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/144 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 103 & plate 118 (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in King's Cliffe (Photographs). SNN112705.

<5> Historic England, Undated, 28 WEST STREET, KINGS CLIFFE, BF084171 (Archive). SNN114399.

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