Building record 2881/0/20 - No.20 High Street (The Old Princess)

A house that was built in 1649 situated on the southern side of the High Street. The house is T shape in plan and is constructed of squared coursed limestone with a double pitch Collyweston slate roof with a stone and brick chimney stack to the left and an ashlar stack to the right. It is two stories high with canted bay windows and a three window range of two light stone mullion windows. A sundial datestone is located in a gable apex with the inscription IL. LY/1649 and the building has had some late 18th century alterations.

{1} House. Datestone IL.LY/1649, probably reset, C17 and late C18. Regular coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. T-shape plan. 2 storeys. Main front is a 3-window range of 2-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows at first floor. 2 late C18 canted bay windows to ground floor left and right, have ashlar bases and slate roofs. Central 6-panel door, with glazed toplights, is under wood lintel and hood with hipped roof. Brick and stone stack to left and ashlar stack to right. Gable end of rea wing has two 2-light stone mullion windows with chamfered mullions; one is probably a C19 copy. Datestone on sundial in apex of gable. Interior has remains of 2 open fireplaces in rooms to left and right of entrance. Early C19 staircase with stick balustrade.

{4} Undated photo and photo dated March 1977;

{5} The site of a house that was built in 1649. The house is T shape in plan and is constructed of squared coursed limestone with a Collyweston Slate roof. Its is two stories with canted bay windows and a three window range of two light stone mulloned windows. A sundial datestone is located in a gable apex with the inscription IL. LY/1649 and the building has had some 18th century alterations.The building is Listed at Grade II.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 11/67 (checked) (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.58 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Easton On The Hill (Photographs). SNN111661.

<5> Historic England, Building File (Uncertain). SNN71057.

<6> Historic England, Undated, THE OLD PRINCESS, EASTON ON THE HILL, BF084071 (Archive). SNN114012.

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Sep 6 2022 11:11AM