Building record 2203/2/2 - Garden Cottage and Barn Cottage

Shown as Bank Cottage on Ordnance Survey map. 5 houses now 2 dwellings. Early C19. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and Collyweston slate roof.

{1} Shown as Bank Cottage on Ordnance Survey map. 5 houses now 2 dwellings. Early C19. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and Colleyweston slate roof. Originally each probably one-unit plan, forming an L-shape range. 6-window range of leaded casements. Those to far right are under gauged stone heads with ashlar surrounds, others are under wood lintels. First floor window to far right is blind. 4-panel door, with rectangular fanlight, to far right has gauged stone head and ashlar surround. Ashlar gable parapets and rebuilt brick stacks at ridge and end. 3-window range to left is Barn Cottage. Similar to main front with 2 four-panel doors between window ranges. Interiors not inspected. Originally forming part of stable courtyard to Polebrook Hall (q.v.). (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p136)

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 19/119 (checked) (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.136 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Polebrook (Photographs). SNN113566.

<5> Historic England, GARDEN COTTAGE, POLEBROOK, BF084433 (Archive). SNN115007.

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Apr 6 2023 10:24AM