Building record 3884/0/117 - No.2 Burystead Place

Mid 18th century house, now office and shop

{1} House, now office and shop. Mid C18. Ironstone ashlar with original plain-tile roof. Originally 2-unit plan with staircase projections to rear. 2 storeys with cellar. 5-window range. Central 6-panelled door, now part-glazed, has segmental arch head with keystone and flat wooden hood over. Pair of sash windows to left of entrance. Glazing bars and segmental arch heads with keystones. C20 shop window to right of entrance. 2-light stone mullion cellaar window to right of entrance. First floor windows are sash windows with glazing bars and segmental arch heads with keystones. 3 roof dormers, 2 have sash windows with glazing bars. Moulded stone cornice and brick and stone stacks at ends. Rear has small projecting C18 gable with 2 sash windows with glazing bars and ashlar gable parapets. Larger C18 wing to right, modified C19. Interior has early C19 staircase with turned balustrade round an open well. Panelled dado to ground floor rooms. Forms one of a pair of semi-detached houses with No.3 Burystead Place (q.v.).

{3} Undated photo, also photo of Nos 2 and 3, undated;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 11/77 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<1> 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, p.32 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN46476.

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

<3> Photographs of buildings in Wellinborough (Photographs). SNN115387.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2023 2:35PM