Building record 400/0/43 - Gate Cottage

{1} Cottage. C18, remodelled in Gothick style late C18/early C19. Coursed squared ironstone, asbestos tile roof, brick end stacks. One-unit plan. 2-storey, one-window range. Plank door with timber lintel in single-storey wing to left with lean-to slate roof. Symmetrical wing to right side has blocked door with timber lintel. Gabled centre has 2-light casement windows to ground and first floors with pointed arch heads, and frames imitating Y-tracery. Later single-storey extension to rear. Interior: lace with chamfered bressumer and stop-chamfered spine beam. Formerly the gate-keeper's cottage for gate to lane which runs past front of cottage. The post from which the gate hung still survives on opposite side of road.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 19/2 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Photographs of buildings in Badby (Photographs). SNN111890.

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Mar 4 2020 12:22PM