Building record 977/3/5 - Nos. 1, 8 & 9 Main Street (The Hall Flats)

Stables, now flats. Situated at the entrance to East Haddon Hall. There is a datestone of 1663 on the south gable.

{1} Stables, now flats. Early C18. Lias ashlar with thatched roof. E-plan. 2 storeys, 3-window range. Entrance in central projection with arched head and keystone. Plank door forming entrance to central passage to stable yard at rear. 3-light stone mullioned windows with leaded lights flanking entrance at ground floor and to ground and first-floor of projecting wings. Vertical oval window above entrance with ashlar surround and leaded lights. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers to all gables. Central ashlar stack. Evidence of former carriage entrance to right of entrance. Former stables to East Haddon Hall.

{3} Undated photo.

{4} [Former list description] II* House at entrance to East Haddon Hall and forming part of the stable block. Dated 1662. A high E shaped one storey (and attic) sandstone house with a thatch roof and a central stone chimney stack. Entrance front, West, has 2 gabled wings central gabled porch, all lower than the main block, verges and kneelers on all gables. Moulded stone eaves. There is a deep plinth. There is one
3-light mullioned window to both floors in the wings and a similar window to the ground floor on both sides of the porch. The doorway has a semi-circular arch head with a keystone, and there is a heavy cornice above it and above that there is a large oval window. In the gable end to the road there is a 3-light mullioned window to both floors, and a good small datestone with a finely moulded architrave.
There is a cornice dripstone above all windows - all have leaded lights (except the oval window in the porch). The ground floor now serves as a garage with large doorways on the East front. There is a later extension Eastwards along the roadside. On the gable end of this is the date 1654, apparently all that remains of an earlier building.

{5} Stables of 1663, on an E plan, with three gables. The porch entrance has a round arch, and there is a big, vertically placed oval window above it.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 18/147 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Photographs of buildings in East Haddon (Photographs). SNN111763.

<4> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, DOE (HHR) Dist of Brixworth R.D., Northants. Aug. 1950 15 (Report). SNN112993.

<5> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 246 (Book). SNN111989.

Record last edited

Dec 5 2023 4:20PM