Building record 785/0/6 - Cavalier Cottage

Dated 1653. Coursed squared limestone banded with ironstone, thatch roof, brick ridge and end stacks on stone bases.

{1} Cottage. Dated 1653. Coursed squared limestone banded with ironstone, thatch roof, brick ridge and end stacks on stone bases. Single storey and attic; 2-window range. 2-unit plan. Small square window with stone sill, jambs and lintel to centre of ground floor flanked by 2-light casements with timber lintels. Slightly left of centre of first floor a datestone inscribed 1653 and C/11 in trefoil ribbon. Blocked eyebrow dormer to left, a 2-light casement with timber lintel in eyebrow dormer to right. Left side elevation has two 2-light stone framed windows to ground and first floor, stone mullion only preserved in first floor left window, rest have C20 timber frames. Entrance to rear. C20 extensions to rear and right side. Interior: moulded die-stop spine beam and 2 open fireplaces, one with chamfered bressumer.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/128 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F05 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 627 (Book). SNN111989.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Stowe Nine Churches (Photographs). SNN113402.

Record last edited

May 11 2022 12:53PM