Building record 1172/1/1 - Old Wharf Farmhouse & Attached Outbuilding(s)

House, formerly farmhouse and possibly public house. Late C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Rendered brick, wood shingle roof, rendered brick end stacks. Single-storey former outbuilding to left originally consisting of 2-bay cart standing and granary above and small single-storey weigh-house to right with lean-to slate roof.

{1} House, formerly farmhouse. Late C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Rendered brick, wood shingle roof, rendered brick end stacks. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. 3-unit plan. Central part-glazed plank door with stop-chamfered wood lintel. 3-light C20 casement windows to ground floor left and right with wood lintels. Old 3-light casement windows to 1st floor left and right and similar 2-light casement to 1st floor centre, all with stop-chamfered wood lintels. Lintels to 3-light casements to 1st floor and to ground floor left have wood "keyblocks". Single-storey former outbuilding to left originally consisting of 2-bay cart standing and granary above and small single-storey weigh-house to right with lean-to slate roof. Interior: stop-chamfered spine beams and open fireplace with bressumer. Old quarry tile floors. The building is said to have also been a public house serving the wharf on the Grand Union Canal near which it stands. The weigh-bridge of 1884 by Pooleys of Liverpool still exists.

{3} Undated photo, also photo dated 29.10.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 4/142 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Photographs of buildings in Yardley Gobion (Photographs). SNN114339.

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Nov 16 2022 3:38PM