Building record 1176/18/1 - Dovehouse Farmhouse, Wicken Road

Early 17th-century farmhouse with 19th-century extension. Now house. Coursed limestone rubble, plain-tile roof, brick end stacks on stone bases.

{1} House, formerly farmhouse. Early C17, with C19 extension, and C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble, plain-tile roof, brick end stacks on stone bases. 2-storeys and attic; 3-window range. Cruciform plan. 2-storey central porch with bargeboarded gable, doorway with wood lintel and 4-light C20 casement window to 1st floor with wood lintel. Fine C17 front door within porch, ribbed and studded, in moulded wood surround. 5-light C20 casement windows to ground and 1st floors left and right of porch with wood lintels. Single-storey C19 extension to right housing kitchen, 2-storey gabled stair turret to left and 2-storey wing to rear. Interior: chamfered cross-beam ceilings to ground floor. Hall fireplace has Tudor-arched bressumer with cut spandrels. Similar smaller fireplace to ground floor room in rear wing with cambered, chamfered bressumer. Fine open-well staircase from ground to 1st floor with turned balusters, square newel post and ball-finials. Substantially original roof ties and collars to principal rafters and 2-tiers of wind-braced purlins. Said to have been built as a manor house.

{3} Undated photo, also two photos dated May 1984, and one dated 29.10.1993;

Various, Photographs (Photographs). SNN111130.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 18/30 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F11 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Deanshanger (Photographs). SNN112532.

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Jun 23 2021 12:27PM