Building record 2310/0/13 - No.6 (Lowick Post Office) and No.8 (Little Thatch)

2 houses, now 2 houses and shop. Early and mid C18, altered mid C19. Regular coursed and squared coursed limestone with thatch and Colleyweston slate roofs. Together comprising an L-shape plan. No.6 is 2 storeys and No.8 is single storey with attic. Main front of No.6 is 2-bay with one-window range to left with a 3-light stone mullion window at first floor and casement window with glazing bars and hood mould at ground floor. Cross wing breaks forward to right with one-window range of casements u der wood lintels in gable end. Return wall of cross wing has C19 shop window with glazing bars and attached plank door, all under slated wooden hood. Brick stack at end. Elevation to right of cross wing is similar with casement window under wood lintel. No.8 attached to left has one casement with glazing bars, under wood lintel, at ground floor and 2 eyebrow dormers with similar casements to attic. C20 door with hood to right. Brick stack at end. Interior of Post Office has ceiling beams.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 13/92 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G08 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Lowick (Photographs). SNN112775.

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