Building record 802/0/6 - The Yews, Church Street

{1} House. Dated 1729. Coursed squared ironstone, slate roof, brick end stacks. 2-unit plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Central 6-panel door with overlight and gabled hood on brackets. C19 plate-glass sash windows throughout with stone lintels with keyblocks. Datestone above central first floor window inscribed B/AM/1729. Wave-chamfered plinth, quoins, moulded stone eaves and stone-coped gables with kneelers. 2 gabled dormers left and right of rooflight. Interior has boxed spine beams, open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer, a room with fielded panelling, dado rail with Greek key pattern, corner cupboard with shaped shelves and C19 marble chimneypiece. Open-well staircase with turned balusters and collar truss roof.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 17/203 (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 10:53AM