Building record 2128/2/1 - Place House Farmhouse (also known as Moat Cottage)

House, formerly a farmhouse. A medieval remnant of uncertain origin.

{1} The existing Place House is a much altered structure which still incorporates some parts of a medieval building of the C14th or earlier. This perhaps represents a new structure after the original moated house was abandoned.

{2} House, formerly a farmhouse. Probably C16, altered C20. Coursed limestone rubble, thatch roof, stone end stacks. T plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Central plank door with Tudor-arched wood surround and wood lintel in C20 glazed porch. Small 1-light window to ground floor far right with pointed arched stone surround and wood lintel above. 3-light leaded hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows, to ground floor left and right of door with hood moulds. Similar windows to 1st floor, but with arched heads to lights, cut spandrels, and moulded stone jambs in eyebrow dormers. Offset buttress to left angle, ironstone quoins and stone-coped gable with kneelers to left end only. Wing projects to rear right of centre with 2-light stone mullion windows, some with arched head to lights. Interior has chamfered spine beams, open fireplace with bressumer beam and collar truss roof. Possibly a fragment of the larger house which formerly stood on this site or a new house built of its materials.

{3} A medieval or post medieval house which incorporates earlier elements. Plan. Site name: Place House.

{4} Place House, a detached farmhouse on the west side of the village, with remains of a moat, incorporates some portions of a medieval building, two buttresses of which are attached to one of the angles of the present house, which is a plain rectangular building of two stories with mullioned windows and thatched roof.

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.20 Site 8 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 2/191 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<3> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<4> Salzman L.F.(ed), 1937, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p.288-9 (unchecked) (Series). SNN100371.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Cogenhoe and Whiston (Photographs). SNN112070.

<6> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 670 (Book). SNN111989.

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Oct 20 2020 12:34PM