Building record 638/0/46 - No.32 (Bowan) and No.34 (Granmead Florist)

2 houses, now shops with offices over. C16 with C18-C20 alterations. Stone and brick. Stucco front with plinth, floor bands and parapet. Tile roof with end stacks. 3 storeys. 4-window range at first floor of 9/6 sashes with 6/6 sashes over. C20 shop fronts and, to left, door with overlight and flat moulded hood.
INTERIOR Chamfered bridging beams include one with sunk quadrant moulding. On a landing two doorways have moulded architraves with moulding dying above shaped ogge stops at plinth level. Tudor-arched moulded stone fireplace on second floor. Winder stair round octagonal newel from first floor to attic in rear stair turret. Probably C18 coupled rafter roof has 2 tiers of purlins and many renewals.

{1}Late 17th or early 18th century. Has been altered. 3 storeys and attics. Modern shop windows.

{3} Photo possibly 1947;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 1/40 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), D06B (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Daventry (Photographs). SNN112541.

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Jun 30 2021 11:25AM