Building record 1995/0/2 - No.30 Wilby Road (Village Farmhouse) & Attached Barn & Cartsheds

Farmhouse and attached barns and cartshed. Barn is mid C18: farmhouse 1848 for Overstone estate.

{1} Farmhouse and attached barns and cartshed. Barn is mid C18: farmhouse 1848 for Overstone estate. Regular coursed lias and lias ashlar with slate and corrugated metal roofs. T-shape plan. 2 storeys with attic. Entrance front of 3-window range of double and triple sashes with glazing bars under gauged stone arches. Flanking bays break forward to gabled dormer above. Central gabled porch has 4-centred arch head with C20 glazed doors. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers and brick and stone stacks at ends. 2-storey C18 wing to right has one first floor casement. C18 barn with central cart entrance is linked at right angles by a 4-bay range of cartsheds with open brick arcade. Barn has original trusses and corrugated roof.

{2} A level 2 building recording survey was undertaken of the four-bay animal shelter and 18th-century barn prior to conversion to residential use. An animal shelter attached to the south of the barn was also recorded.

{4} Two undated photos;

{5} Historic building recording survey was undertaken of the wash house to the south of the farmhouse prior to conversion to ancillary accommodation. Historic maps and extant fittings show that it was built in the second half of the 19th century. The ground floor comprisies a larder at the north end and a passgae through to the wash house at the rear. The wash house retains a copper for heating water, a hearth, large sink and a drain. The first floor comprises a single room with a plaster/cement floor and iron hooks in the side walls, possibly for holding washing lines and a large roof-top ventilator.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 3/266 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Prentice, J, 2020, Level 2 Building Recording at Village Farm Barns, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire (Report). SNN112467.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Mears Ashby (Photographs). SNN112861.

<5> Phillips, M, 2022, Wash House, Village Farm, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire: Historic Building Recording (Report). SNN113972.

<6> Crank, N. (Editor), 2023, South Midlands Archaeology (53), P. 53 (Journal). SNN116414.

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Jun 24 2024 11:39AM