Building record 821/0/9 - Vine Cottage & Thatchers Cottage

Originally 1 house now 2 dwellings. 1659 Datestone. Remodelled early 20th century.

{1} House, now 2 dwellings. Datestones 1659 and SG 1730 remodelled early C20 for Charles Rothschild by W. Hackvale. Squared coursed limestone with thatch roof. Originally 3-unit plan. Single storey with attic. 3 window range of early C20 three-light stone mullion windows, those to attic are under eyebrow dormers. C20 doors, to left and right of centre, are under artificial stone lintels. Ashlar gable parapets and ashlar ridge and end stacks, with moulded cornices. Datestone 1730 above doorway to V ne Cottage has moulded cornice; datestone 1650 above window to left. Fire insurance plaque to right of doorway. C19 wing to rear remodelled early C20. Interiors not inspected, but Thatchers Cottage noted as having an open fireplace with bressumer and stop-chamfered spine beams.

{3} Cottages of one storey with attics. Thatched, with parapeted gables, originally a single house, perhaps class 1a. C17th but altered to match the other estate cottages c.1900. A rear wing was added behind Vine Cottage in the early C19th. Inside axial beams have ogee or bar stops. Reset in the front wall of Vine Cottage are datestones inscribed ‘1659’ and ‘S G 1730’ and a fire insurance plaque.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 18/8 (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 5 (checked) (Series). SNN77384.

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

<5> Historic England, VINE COTTAGE, ASHTON, BF084336 (Archive). SNN115031.

Record last edited

Apr 14 2023 9:58AM