Building record 1221/0/49 - No. 5 Grafton Road (Melita Cottage)

{1} Cottage, formerly row of 3 cottages. Late C17/early C18. Coursed limestone rubble, thatch roof, brick end stacks. 2-storey, 3-window range. One-unit plans originally. Central part-glazed plank door with wood lintel in C20 porch flanked by blocked doors with wood lintels. 2-light casement windows to ground and 1st floors, all with wood lintels; those to 1st floor in eyebrow dormers. Windows to left of centre have cast-iron lattice casements. C20 1-storey, 2-window extension to right end. Interior: chamfered spinebeams and open fireplace with cambered chamfered bressumer.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 14/149 (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.

Record last edited

Nov 16 2022 12:44PM