Building record 2888/0/25 - Stocks Hill House

An open hall house that was built in the late 15th century that has since been subdivided and remodelled in 1601, 1858 and 1973 is situated in a prominent position on the northern side of Mill Street at its junction with Stamford Road and Church Lane. The building is constructed of squared coursed limestone with a double pitch Collyweston slate roof with ashlar parapets and chimney stacks. It is single and two stories high with an attic range lit by hipped and gabled eaves dormer windows. The main front has a three window range of two light stone mullion windows with cusp headed lights and squared label stops. The left gable abuts the road and has three, two light stone mullion windows to each floor. The building has gabled wings at the rear and on the front left with similar stone mullion windows.

{1} House. Late C15, datestones 1601 and 1858 refer to remodellings, also remodelled 1973. Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Originally hall house now subdivided. 2 storeys, part with attics, taking account of sloping ground and reducing to single storey with attic. Main front is of 4 bays, 3-window range. Late C15, two-light, stone mullion windows, with cusped head lights, and square label stops, to ground and first floor left of centre. C19 two- and 3-light stone mullion windows, set in eaves dormers, to right of centre. Similar 3-window range of 2- and 3-light windows to ground floor right. Early C17, single-light, window with moulded stone surround, under eaves, to far left. 2 C20 part-glazed doors between window ranges, have 4 centred arch-heads with moulded stone surrounds. Door to right, on rising ground, is higher than door to left. Hipped roof dormer, to left of centre, with leaded lights. Ashlar gable parapets to left. Lateral ashlar stack, to left of centre, and ashlar stack to right end. C19 single storey building, breaks forward at right angles, to far left. C20, three-light, stone mullion window in gable end with similar, single-light, window above. Ashlar gable parapets. Single storey building, attached to far right, has C20 part-glazed door, with moulded stone surround, similar to main range. Also C19 double doors under shallow stone arch. Left gable, abutting road, has late C15 two-light stone mullion windows, to ground and first floor, with cusped-head lights and square label stops. Datestone 1601 in apex of gable. Gable end of lean-to, to left, has one similar C19 stone mullion window. Rear elevation has C19 lean-to extension, to right, and 2 window-range of C20 three-light stone mullion windows to centre and right. First floor windows have gablets over. C20 door, to left, has similar surround to those at main front. Single storey range, to left, has 2- and 3-light stone mullion windows, one is C17 reset. Lateral ashlar stack, to left, and stone stack to right. Interior: centre bays were originally the open hall; sub-divided early C17. Entrance hall and staircase remodelled 1973, C17 timber stud wall to right. Drawing room to left of entrance hall has large open fireplace with bressumer, probably late C15, and stop-chamfered spine beams. Kitchen to far right of entrance hall has stop-chamfered spine beams and remains of open fireplace with bressumer. Room to first floor left has early C17 plaster frieze with scroll decoration. Fragments of similar frieze to first floor landing. First floor over kitchen is said to be plaster. Late C15 hall roof, of 2 bays, has central truss with tapered principals and braces to a cambered collar; butt purlins with windbraces. Similar late C15 two-bay roof over parlour range, to left, has no windbraces and clasped purlins. The range to the right has a C18 roof. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: p194; RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p47)

{5} Shown on 1775 Enclosure Map.

{8} Eight undated photos;

{9} The house has been much altered most notably in 1858 and in 1973 by Kelham & Hart of Stamford when the former blank west side was given new mullioned windows and gabled dormers.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 9/106 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G11 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.194 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.47 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77384.

<5> 1775, Duddington Enclosure Map (NRO 2857), (unchecked) (Map). SNN102479.

<6> 1798, Duddington Map (NRO 3633), (unchecked) (Map). SNN102480.

<7> 1815, Duddington NRO J(D) 603, (unchecked) (Map). SNN102481.

<8> Photographs of buildings in Duddington (Photographs). SNN112103.

<9> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 240 (Book). SNN111989.

<10> Historic England, Undated, STOCKS HILL HOUSE, DUDDINGTON WITH FINESHADE, BF084619 (Archive). SNN114486.

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Dec 8 2022 3:23PM