Building record 130/0/82 - No.50 Market Place

{1} An ancient house, possibly C17. 3-storeyed coursed rubble (vide north side) with a late C18 roughcast front with a moulded cornice, parapet and Doric side pilasters. Modern boxed out shop front with a bracketed flat hood. Plain bands at 1st and 2nd floors. 2 brick shafts on stone bases. 4 sash windows in moulded stone frames.

{5} The property is a complex of three rubble stone buildings with a narrow carriageway to the south and a stone outhouse in the walled garden to the rear. The earliest building is the L-shaped structure on the street frontage which is probably early 18th century. The second floor of the street range appears to have been raised in the late 18th century, when the new window openings with box seats were created, the brickwork added to the chimneys and display cupboards added. The building to the rear is of a similar date, but appears to have functioned separately. It has a double chimney serving an inglenook fireplace and a large blocked window in the first floor opening onto the more easily accessible lane to the north of the property. It is thought possible that this functioned in some sort of commercial aspect such as cookhouse or brewhouse with goods going in/out of the window

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 1/12 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H17 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Horne B. (Editor), 2008, South Midlands Archaeology: CBA Group 9 Newsletter (38), p.36 (unchecked) (Journal). SNN106282.

<4> Gaimster, M., 2008, Post-medieval fieldwork in Britain, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands in 2007, p.374 (unchecked) (Article). SNN107517.

<5> Semmelmann, K., 2007, Historic Building Recording: 50 Market Place, Brackley, Northamptonshire (Report). SNN111166.

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Jun 27 2018 11:20AM