Building record 1223/8/1 - No. 75 High Street

House, formerly farmhouse. Late C17 with C19 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble, corrugated iron roof over thatch and brick ridge and end stacks.

{1} House, formerly farmhouse. Late C17 with C19 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble, corrugated iron roof over thatch and brick ridge and end stacks. 2-storey, 3-window range. 3-unit plan. C20 doors to left and right of centre with wood lintels, that to left with straight head on brackets and lintel extending over 2-light casement window to left. 3-light casements either side of right door and 2-light casements to 1st floor. C19 2-storey brick extension to rear linking main house with small 2-storey, 2-unit cottage to rear, now part of general accommodation. Interior has stop-chamfered spine beams and open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer. Collar-truss roof. Left end bay probably used as shop originally with loft above and very large open fireplace to ground floor room with cambered bressumer and bread oven. A late C14 kiln has been excavated in front garden.

{3} Analysis, plan, section & photographs. This house dates from around 1600 or earlier, and began as a three-bay, two-storey timber-framed building comprising kitchen with large fireplace, hall with fireplace and parlour, originally unheated but with a fireplace added in the later 18th century, all with three chambers over. Each of the bays was square. The house was cased in stone, probably in the late 17th century.The 1727 map {4} shows the cottage much as it is at present. It also shows a barn alongside the house, gable-end onto the road, which survived until the the mid-20th century, and a larger one along the road frontage (west of the house), which had disappeared by 1777. A barn was added towards the back of the plot in the 18th century but by the end of the 19th century, this had been replaced by two new barns nearer the house. Three one-bay rooms were added sequentially, at the rear of the house, in the second half of the 19th century. During WWII the thatched roof was covered in corrugated iron sheeting.

Documentary history of the house dates from the mid 17th century including a 1650 survey which details house and associated farm buildings.

{5} Undated photo, also photo dated 29.10.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 15/113 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Conlon R., 2005, The Whittlewood Project: Historic Buildings Survey, Potterspury with Furtho (Report). SNN105034.

<4> Collier; Adams, c1727, Map of Potterspury (Map). SNN20527.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Potterspury (Photographs). SNN112957.

<6> Woodfield, P, 2003, The Whittlewood Project: Phase 1 rapid survey of all buildings within the 12 parishes of the survey, identifying buildings that have, or are likely to have, fabric dating from before 1700 (Report). SNN116636.

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