Building record 5616/4/1 - Home Farmhouse

Farmhouse, now house. Datestone H/TA/1663. Regular coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Double depth plan.

{1} Farmhouse, now house. Datestone H/TA/1663. Regular coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Double depth plan. 2 storeys with attic. Main front of 2-window range at ground floor and one at first floor having a canted bay window with stone mullions, and leaded lights, to ground and first floor right. Leaded casement to ground floor left under wood lintel. Central C20 door with wood lintel, with fanlight. Ashlar gable parapet and ashlar stack at end. Elevation to left of 2-window range of 2 and 3-light stone mullion windows with leaded lights and one similar 2-light window in gable. Datestone at apex of gable. Elevation to right of one-window range of casements under wood lintels. Rear elevation has pair of gables with lean-to attached to each. Central leaded casement under wood lintel and attic casement to each gable, also under wood lintels. Tablet in apex of right gable has inscription H/FE. Interior not inspected.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/147 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G07 p.79 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Twywell (Photographs). SNN113617.

<4> Souterrain Archaeological Services Ltd, 2023, Images from Historic Building Recording at Home Farm House, Lower Street, Twywell, Northamptonshire, 2022, https://doi.org/10.5284/1107024 (Digital archive). SNN115691.

<5> Crank, N. (Editor), 2023, South Midlands Archaeology (53), P. 78 (Journal). SNN116414.

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