Building record 821/3/1 - Manor House

Manor house. C15 origins, mainly C17 altered C18 and C19. Squared coursed and regular coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof

{1} Manor house. C15 origins, mainly C17 altered C18 and C19. Squared coursed and regular coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. 3-unit, lobby-entry, plan with cross-wing. 2 storeys. Entrance front is an irregular 3-window range of C19 casements under wood lintels. Central, C19 part-glazed door, to centre, under wood lintel. Gabled cross-wing breaks forward to right. Traces of medieval window surround to first floor of gable. Return wall of cross-wing has one C19 casement at ground floor. Left corner of cross-wing is chamfered and has fragment of medieval carvings. C20 buttress to left of doorway. Ashlar gable parapets, with kneelers, to left gable. Ashlar ridge and end stacks with moulded cornices. Elevation of cross-wing, to right, has late C19 square wooden bay window to left with C19 casement window above. 4-panel door to right, is under wood lintel. Rear elevation is an irregular 3-window range, similar to entrance front. Gabled cross-wing breaks forward, to right, with 2 windows at first floor and one at ground floor. C20 stable door to far right, under wood lintel, has blocked door alongside. Evidence of earlier roof line in gable of cross-wing. Ashlar parapet of cross-wing has gabled finials and kneelers. Shallow pilaster to right corner and central C20 buttress. Interior not inspected but kitchen noted as having remains of open fireplace with bressumer. Room in cross-wing also has small open fireplace. Mid/late C19 staircase to rear of cross-wing. One C18 six-panelled door noted to right of ground floor.

{3} The Manor House, of two storeys, consists of a main range of the C17th and an earlier cross wing. The date of the latter is not clear although it incorporates several reset medieval fragments. The main range conforms to class 3a. The cross wing was formerly lower, the scars of gable lines being visible on both the present parapeted gables. In the north gable is the head of a C13th two-light window reset over later jambs. Inside there is a C17th ceiling beam. The central room of the main range, separated from the east room by a timber-framed partition, has a stop-chamfered mantel beam and an ogee-stopped cross beam.

{4} Undated photo;

{7} See GP AO/62/41/4.

{8} House still as described above.

{9} The earliest structural evidence is for the 13th century for one window. The bulk of the medieval construction consists of a cross wing containing a parlour and upper camera of a substantial medieval house. The house was apparently replaced by a two storey building in the 16th century. The more was held by the Abbey of Peterborough until the Dissolution, thereafter settling to Queen Katherine Parr.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 18/6 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G10 (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.18 Site 2 (checked) (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Ashton Wold (Photographs). SNN111862.

<5> Historic England, MANOR HOUSE, ASHTON, BF084333 (Archive). SNN115033.

<6> Ordnance Survey Map (Scale/date), OS 6" 1958 (Map). SNN112944.

<7> Seaman, B H, 1962, Field Investigators Comments, F1 BHS 04-MAY-62 (Note). SNN113373.

<8> Seaman, BH, 1969, Field investigators comments, F2 BHS 29-AUG-69 (Notes). SNN111907.

<9> Woodfield P., 1981, The Larger Medieval Houses of Northamptonshire, p. 163 (Article). SNN23550.

Record last edited

Dec 4 2024 2:34PM