Building record 1223/0/15 - No. 102 High Street

Cottage. Dated 1674 with C19 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble, reed thatch roof, brick end stacks.

{1} Cottage. Dated 1674 with C19 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble, reed thatch roof, brick end stacks. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. 2-unit plan. Central C20 door with flat-arched head and rustic porch, whose felt roof partially conceals datestone above inscribed IC/1674. 3-light casement windows to ground floor left and right with flat-arched heads, and 3-light leaded casements to 1st floor with wood lintels. Single-storey brick extension projects to far right. Single-storey extension to rear with lean-to roof. Interior has ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams, and blocked inglenook.

{3} Analysis, plan, elevation, sections and photographs. The house has, on the ground floor, one heated living room at the south end, and a large room, possibly a retail workshop, at the north, the two separated by a cross passage which may have been open to the northern room. The upper floor was originally open to the roof and is partitioned on the line of the roof trusses after the floor was laid. A ceiling was later inserted to form futher rooms in the attic, with its stair in the central bay. It is shown on the Collier and Baker map of 1727 in the form it is at present {4}.

{5} Undated photo, also photo dated 29.10.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 15/108 (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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