Building record 4745/10/1 - The Round House, Main Street

{1} Cottage. Mid/late C17 with C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble, thatch roof, brick end stack. 1 storey and attic; 4-window range. 4-unit plan. C20 door to right of centre with wood lintel flanked by 3-light casement windows with wood lintels. Similar casement window to far right, 2-light casement window to far left and 2-light casements to attic floor in eyebrow dormers; all have wood lintels. Right end facing road is rounded. Interior has chamfered spine beams and open fireplace with cambered ogee-stop-chamfered bressumer. Blocked inglenook and collar truss roof. Room in rounded end formerly known as the barn. Has been two or three cottages. Brick ridge stack to blocked inglenook has been dismantled; chimney-breast survives.

{3} Undated photo, also photo dated 29.10.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/51 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Photographs of buildings in Alderton (Photographs). SNN112583.

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Nov 3 2021 4:27PM