Building record 2853/0/72 - No.41 and attached shop West Street

Early 19th century, originally built as a house and attached butchers shop. Shop now disused

House and shop, shop now disused. Early C19. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar facade and Welsh slate roof. T-shape plan. 3 storeys. Main front is a 4-window range of 8-panel, unhorned sash windows under stone lintels with keyblocks. 6-panel door, to left of centre, has rectangular fanlight with glazing bars and moulded wood doorcase with roundels and pediment over. Shop window, to far right, has pair of central, part-glazed, stable doors and continuous stone lintel with 3 keyblocks. Chamfer d plinth and raised band between floors. Moulded wood cornice and ashlar gable parapets. Stone stacks at ridge and end. Rear wing is 2-storey, part with lean-to roof, and has C19 casement windows. Interior not inspected but noted as having early C19 fittings. Originally built as a house and attached butchers shop. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p105)

{3} A large house with wide two-storey wing at the rear; the west room probably always a shop and apparently occupied by Matthew Bailey, butcher in 1851;

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/162 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, p.83 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN40683.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 105 (Series). SNN77384.

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

<5> Historic England, Undated, 41 WEST STREET, KINGS CLIFFE, BF084201 (Archive). SNN114389.

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Nov 24 2022 4:31PM