Building record 2646/0/4 - Manor Cottage

House built 1648. With 19th and 20th century additions.

{1} House. Datestone RB/1648, C19th and C20th. Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Originally 2-unit plan. Single storey with attic. 3-window range of C19 style casements, with glazing bars, under wood lintels. Similar C19 style casements to attic, two are under Lincolnshire eaves dormers. 4-panel door, to right of centre, has a C20 wooden porch. Ashlar gable parapet, to right and rendered stacks at end. C20 single-storey extension to right. Right gable has one-window range, similar o main front. Date on diamond shape plaque in apex of gable. One-bay extension, in similar style, to rear is probably C19. Interior not inspected but noted as having stop-chamfered spine beams and open fireplace with similar stop-chamfered bressumer. A thatch roof was replaced mid C20 with Collyweston slates.

{4} Undated photo;

Historic England, Undated, MANOR COTTAGE, TANSOR, BF084448 (Archive). SNN116022.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/142 (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.149 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Tansor (Photographs). SNN113271.

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Feb 8 2024 12:51PM