Building record 1105/0/4 - Beech House

House with datestone of 1698. Former vicarage.

{1} House. Datestone 1698. Lias ashlar with slate roof. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 7-window range. Central 6-panelled door under fanlight with roundels. Moulded stone surround with keystone, 2-light casement windows with moulded stone surrounds and keystones, those flanking entrance and immediately above one single light. Ashlar quoins and string course. Moulded stone cornice; ashlar gable parapets and kneelers; stone and brick stacks at ends. Datestone ECA/1698 on left gable. C19 and C20 extensions to rear. Interior: Fine central stair with quarter landings and turned balusters. Ground-floor rooms to left and right of entrance have fireplaces with bolection moulded surrounds. Open fireplace with bressumer in kitchen at rear has later corbled support brackets, first floor room to left has fireplace with Delft tiles. Trenched pulin roof structure.

{3} Undated photo.

{4} [Former list description]
(SP 68867190 - sited from HHR map)
II The Vicarage
*Dated 1689. A rectangular sandstone house of 2 storeys with steep pitched roof, late slate, and stone chimney stacks. Quoins, deep plinth and platband between the storeys. The windows are set in wide flat architraves with moulded inner edge, keystone and moulded cill. The front is symmetrical with 7 windows to the first floor, the two flanking the central window are very narrow (blind in this floor) and there are two similar narrow ones by the entrance. The larger windows are 2-light casements and all have heavy wooden cases. The simple doorway has a plain wide architrave with keystone. There is a fine datestone with moulded architrave and simple entablature on the West gable. Interior may be of interest.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 3/226 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G01 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Hollowell (Photographs). SNN112657.

<4> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, DOE (HHR) Dist. of Brixworth. R.D., Northtants. Aug. 1950 27 (Report). SNN112993.

<5> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 339 (Book). SNN111989.

Record last edited

Mar 6 2024 3:18PM