Building record 638/0/32 - No.27 (Don Staniforth)

A late 17th century townhouse with first floor intact. Later shop front with early 19th century modillioned cornices.

{1} House, now shop. Late C17 with later alterations and additions. Limestone ashlar. C20 tile roof. Brick end stacks, the stack to left on stone base. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys plus attic. 4-window range. Projecting 3-storey entrance porch to left has hipped roof. Rebuilt ground floor has two C20 wood cased shop fronts and entrances. First and second floors have 2-light wood mullioned and transomed windows or sashes with stone cased surrounds. Modillion eaves cornice. 2 flat roofed dormers. Interior of ground floor modernised; first floor retaining C17 oak panelled roof; five staircases from first to second floor; stone chimney piece with moulded chamfers; flattened pointed arch to first floor. Interior not inspected.

{1}Late 17th century. 3 stories 3 sash windows. Modern shop windows.

{3} Photo possibly 1947;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 1/21 (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.

<4> Historic England, Undated, 27 HIGH STREET, DAVENTRY, BF103083 (Archive). SNN113810.

Record last edited

Aug 16 2022 12:42PM