Building record 808/3/1 - No. 70 Queen Street (Home Farmhouse)

Farmhouse. Early C19 doubled in size mid C19. Red brick and ironstone ashlar, hipped slate roof, brick lateral stacks.

{1} Farmhouse. Early C19 doubled in size mid C19. Red brick and ironstone ashlar, hipped slate roof, brick lateral stacks. 2-unit central staircase plan made double-depth. 3-storey, 3-window range. Entrance front has central 6-panel door with timber lintel, 3-light leaded casement windows to ground, first floor and second floors except for similar 2-light casement over door and blank window to centre of second floor; all have stop-chamfered timber lintels. A single-storey brick lean-to extension to right with 6-panel back door with semi-circular hood on brackets and 2-light casement window to right. Straight joint to middle of side elevation. Garden front of c.1840 has 2 storeys and is faced with stone. Central 6-panel door with ornamental overlight in pilastered stone surround with entablature, 12-pane sash windows to ground floor, 9-pane sashes to first, all with stone lintel and keyblocks. Plinth, quoins, first floor string course and stone eaves cornice. Interior not inspected.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 20/212 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F06 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Weedon Bec (Photographs). SNN114204.

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Oct 12 2022 10:35AM