Building record 1933/0/66 - Star Hall House (Corner of Well Street), Laws Lane

Coffee house, now house. Datestone 1853.

{1} Coffee house, now house. Datestone 1853. Probably by E.F. Law for William Mackworth-Dolben. Squared coursed ironstone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Originally 2-unit plan. 2 storeys. 3-window range. Central C20 door with fanlight and 4-centred chamfered stone head. 3-light stone-mullion window to left and canted stone bay window to right. 2-light stone-mullion windows at first floor have gabled half dormers. Ashlar gable parapets with kneelers and stone stacks at ends. Initials MD in centre gable and datestone in flanking gables. Wrought iron hanging sign bracket attached to left corner. Rear similar with later C19 additions. Attached to Star Hall (q.v.) by single-storey porch. Interior not inspected. Built as a temperance coffee house. (Finedon Otherwise Thingdon by J.L.H. Bailey, p.191).

{3} One corner of Dolben Square - erected for temperance purposes by the Mackworth-Dolbens on the site of an elarier farmstead. The building has now been converted into a domestic residence. Film 3, photo 19

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 7/33 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G04 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100394.

<3> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Industrial Period, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN4.

<4> Bailey J.L.H., 1975, Finedon Otherwise Thingdon: A History of Finedon, p.191 (unchecked) (Book). SNN105040.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Finedon (Photographs). SNN111732.

Record last edited

Aug 27 2024 2:54PM