Building record 3472/4/1 - French Partridge Restaurant

Formerly Horton Inn Farm & The Gunning Arms. Outbuildings associated with the farm sitauted on the western side of the Newport Pagnell Road.

{1} Restaurant and dwelling; formerly a farmhouse and coaching inn; late C17th and mid C18th but altered C20th; older half of coursed limestone rubble; earlier half of red brick in English bond; both halves rendered to front; C20th ridged tile roofs with rendered brick and stone end and ridge and internal stacks; single and double-depth plans; 2 storeys and attic; 9-window range; 4-window range to left of centre has "French" window to left of centre and C20th 16-pane windows probably replacing sash windows with stone sills; 5-window range to right of centre has 4-panelled part-glazed door to far left flanked by painted stone Tuscan columns with plain frieze and timber pediment; C20th part-glazed door with overlight to right of centre and rendered surround; 12-pane sashes to ground and 1st floors with rendered heads; ironstone plinths and quoins to left range; wood modillion eaves to right range and stone-coped gables with kneelers and C20th roof dormers; right range has double-span roof; interior: chamine beams and re-arranged staircase with turned column-on-vase balusters; formerly known as The Gunning Arms and at an earlier date Horton Inn Farm.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 21/97 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Hackleton (Photographs). SNN112513.

Record last edited

Mar 25 2025 10:57AM