Building record 3629/0/2 - No. 15 Kings Lane

Cottage constructed in the mid-18th century. Evidence of former thatched roof still visible on first floor ceiling

{1} House. Mid C18. Regular coursed ironstone, now painted, with C20 concrete tile roof. 2-unit plan. Single storey with attic. 2-window range of Lincolnshire eaves dormers with C19 casement windows. Central C20 porch. Gable parapet to right and brick stacks at ends. Interior not inspected but original roof structure may survive.

{3} 15 King’s Lane is based around the core of a small cottage built of roughly-coursed Northampton
Sand with Ironstone, which has been mostly limewashed, and one gable rendered. Extensions have been added to the northern end of the building in the second half of the 20th-century. The Lincolnshire dormers are part of a move to insert a first floor where previously there was none. This can be seen in the numerous courses of different stonework added to the top of the long-axis walls. A former inglenook had been narrowed considerably to form a passageway through to the modern extensions.

On the first floor, both rooms have been finished off by the plastering of the roof timbers and the spaces in between. This has created a knob of plaster around a series of knots and ties, made with natural fibres and
which formerly held the thatched roof in place. The plaster preserves their individual shapes and
sizes.

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 2/227 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G05 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100394.

<3> Soden I, 2017, Level 2 archaeological buildings recording at 15 Kings Lane, Little Harrowden, Northamptonshire, 2017 (Report). SNN110827.

<4> Crank, N. (Editor), 2018, South Midlands Archaeology (48), p. 59 (Journal). SNN111393.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Little Harrowden (Photographs). SNN112602.

Record last edited

Aug 4 2021 2:10PM