Building record 6723/0/3 - No.58 Main Street (Manor Farmhouse), Attached Dovecote & Outbuildings

Farmhouse. Probably early C18 origins with datestone 1785. Squared coursed ironstone with limestone ashlar front and Collyweston slate roof.

{1} Farmhouse. Probably early C18 origins with datestone 1785. Squared coursed ironstone with limestone ashlar front and Collyweston slate roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys with attic. Main front of 3-window range. Central 6-panel door with arch-head fanlight and rusticated ashlar surround. Sash windows with glazing bars. Rusticated ashlar surrounds with keyblocks. First floor centre window has arch head. Moulded stone cornice. 3 roof dormers with alternate rectangular and segmental pediments. SUMMARY prin6 rapets and ashlar stacks ar ends. Left gable has datestone and sash windows with glazing bars. Dovecote attached to right of main front has blocked carriage arch with brick dressings to head. Brick gable parapets to right and wooden glover to ridge. Late C18th range of outbuildings attached at right angles to right of dovecote by C18 one-unit building. Elevation of outbuildings to right has 6-bay range of first floor openings. Various ground floor openings, 4 to far left, have wood lintels. Probably originally used as stables with haylofts over. Slate roof with ashlar gable parapets. Partially legible inscribed tablet to far left. Interior not inspected but house noted as having a late C18 staircase with turned balusters.

{3} Undated photo, also nine photos dated 22.01.1996, and one photo dated April 1997, also eight photos dated 17.10.1996 and eleven photos of dovecote dated 17.10.1996;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 13/110 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1992, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), K06 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN46686.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Middleton (Photographs). SNN112862.

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