Building record 4140/0/1 - Stocks and Whipping Post approx 10m north of No. 34 High Street

Probable 18th-century stocks and whipping post.

{1} Stocks and whipping post. Probably C18. Wooden stocks with 6 holes and attached whipping post with various iron rings. Part of stocks renewed C20.

{3} Post medieval stocks and whipping post, situated on the village green. In use in 1858

{4} Print of stocks.

{?} Watercolour by Perrin, from 1915. Possible situated in Abington Museum

{7} Undated photo, also photo dated Sept 1959;

{8} The Footboards of the stocks are modern replacements; the side members, of which the southern was a whipping post, are of oak and appear original.
The whole is pitched for preservation. Surveyed.
G.P. AO/61/143/7 from West {12}.

{9} No change.

{10} [SP 89919436] Stocks [T.I.]

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 10/64 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP89SE14 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<4> Dryden H.E.L., 1842-1895, Dryden Collection, DR/25/128/3 (Archive). SNN115.

<5> Giggins, B., 1993, The Stocks, Gretton, (unchecked) (Report). SNN76424.

<6> Giggins, B., 2011, Gretton Stocks, Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Report). SNN107425.

<7> Photographs of buildings in Gretton (Photographs). SNN111741.

<8> Colquhoun, FD, 1961, Field investigators comments, F1 FDC 05-SEP-1961 (Notes). SNN113017.

<9> Baird, J., 1970, Field investigators comments, F2 JB 19-MAR-1970 (Notes). SNN110341.

<10> 1886, Associated Architectural Societies Reports, p.150 illus (Series). SNN34926.

<11> Ordnance Survey Map (Scale/date), OS 25" 1900 (Map). SNN112944.

<12> Historic England, Undated, STOCKS AND WHIPPING POST AT GRETTON FROM THE WEST, OS61/F143/7 (Archive). SNN113019.

Record last edited

Jan 31 2024 10:49AM