Building record 6876/2/1 - Chase Park Farmhouse

Farmhouse, formerly dower house. Mid/late C17, altered C20. Coursed limestone rubble with limestone dressings, interlocking tile roof, stone end stacks with diagonal brick flues.

{1} Farmhouse, formerly dower house. Mid/late C17, altered C20. Coursed limestone rubble with limestone dressings, interlocking tile roof, stone end stacks with diagonal brick flues. U-plan. 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Central 4-panel, part-glazed door with moulded stone surround and horizontal oval overlight. 3-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows to ground and 1st floors with hood moulds, those to ground floor with relieving arches. Gabled dormers to left and right with 2-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows with hood moulds. Large sundial above door with hood mould. A 2-storey-and-attic, 2-window, wing to rear left, with stone mullion windows, full-height gabled stair turret to rear centre, and one-storey-and-attic kitchen wing to rear right with ornamental tile ridges. Casement windows and back door with wood lintels. Interior has ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams, open fireplace with ogee-stop-chamfered bressumer and stone fireplace with 4-centred head.

{3} Undated photo;

{4} Drawing of house;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/169 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Photographs of buildings in Yardley Hastings (Photographs). SNN114340.

<4> Dryden H.E.L., 1842-1895, Dryden Collection, DR/25/314/1 (Archive). SNN115.

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May 22 2024 2:50PM