Building record 4745/7/1 - Manor Farmhouse and attached outbuildings

Farmhouse. Dated 1695. C19 alterations and additions. Coursed squared limestone with ironstone dressings, old plain-tile roof and stone end stacks.

{1} Farmhouse. Dated 1695. C19 alterations and additions. Coursed squared limestone with ironstone dressings, old plain-tile roof and stone end stacks. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. T-plan. Main front facing road has central panelled and part-glazed door, probably inserted mid C19, with coloured glass margin glazing, wood lintel and straight hood on brackets supported by posts. Horizontal oval windows above and to centre of 1st floor with keyed stone surrounds, that to ground floor flanked by stone lintels with keyblocks which do not appear to be associated with any windows. 16-pane sash windows to ground and 1st floor left and right with stone lintels and keyblocks to ground floor, wood lintels to 1st. Raised ironstone quoins and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Wing to rear has blocked door to left side with datestone above of ironstone inscribed H/JJ.1695 with Tudor rose. This original 2-storey, 1-window wing with hipped roof dormer has 2-storey, 2-window extension continued by outbuildings including 3-bay cartshed open to yard on timber posts. Interior: ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams, open fireplace with cambered chamfered bressumer with ogee stops and fine open-well staircase from ground floor to attic with twisted balusters on bulbous feet. Bolection-moulded wood chimneypieces with late C19 tiled grates in 1st floor rooms. Stone cellar. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p76)

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/49 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.76 (checked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 77 (Book). SNN111989.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Alderton (Photographs). SNN112583.

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