Building record 3656/5/1 - Walgrave House

Rectory, now house. Reputedly c.1687. Banded ashlar limestone and lias with slate roof.

{1} Rectory, now house. Reputedly c.1687. Banded ashlar limestone and lias with slate roof. Double depth plan, 2 storeys with attic. Main elevation of 5-window range. Central C20 door has flat arch heads flanking C19 casements with similar heads. First floor windows are C19 casements with stone lintels and keyblocks. Evidence of 2-light stone mullion windows to cellar below ground floor windows. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers; three C19 roof dormers, brick stacks at ends. Large C19 extension to rear has canted bay window to south. Datestone 1687 on south gable, now illegible.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 11/225 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G02 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, P. 634 (Book). SNN111989.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Walgrave (Photographs). SNN114090.

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Sep 28 2022 10:20AM