Building record 400/14/2 - Outbuilding and former cottage at The Hollies

The building was constructed in the mid 17th century as a domestic house with attached cow hovel, later becoming an ancillary building for the Hollies and later again a slaughterhouse.

{1} Outbuilding and former cottage. C17. Coursed squared ironstone, corrugated iron roof replacing thatch, stone end stack to right patched with brick. Cottage has one unit plan; 2-storey, one-window range. Ground floor has 2-light casement window to right, a 1-light casement to left. First floor window originally a dormer. Opening to left of cottage with plank door to hayloft above. Brick eaves. Door to right side with chamfered wood surround and C17 plank door with original hinges. Windows and door have timber lintels. Interior has open fireplace with chamfered cambered bressumer, stop-chamfered spine beam, and some stop-chamfered joists.

{3} Originally built as a domestic cottage with agricultural building attached in the mid 17th century following the established “long house” design. The chamfered beams and filleted door suggests the house may have been above average standard for the era. It appears that the house then lost some of its status becoming ancillary to the Hollies, the later copper and possible later bread oven hints at being a kitchen or brewhouse/bakehouse. It is possible that a first floor was added around this time for domestic or servants accommodation.

In the 19th century the southernmost bay was given over to become a slaughterhouse with the addition of the large wheel.

The change in status of the building is reflected in the fabric of the roof with the original, well finished structural elements poorly repaired and replaced over the years. It is likely that without the tinned sheet roof protecting the building it would have succumbed to the in-direct neglect and would have been lost, as happened to another building cartographic sources indicate originally occupied the frontage.

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/33 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Richards, G., 2016, An Archaeological Standing Building Survey of Goat Cottage, The Green, Badby, Northamptonshire, 2016 (Report). SNN110729.

<4> Horne, B (editor), 2016, South Midlands Archaeology (46), p. 31 (Journal). SNN111326.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Badby (Photographs). SNN111890.

Record last edited

Mar 4 2020 11:46AM