Building record 3250/0/24 - Excelsior Band Club

House, now club. Mid C18. Regular coursed limestone with concrete tile roof.

{1} House, now club. Mid C18. Regular coursed limestone with concrete tile roof. Originally probably 3-unit plan. 2 storeys with attic. 4-window range, now 3, of leaded casements at first floor and 5-window range of C20 casements at ground floor, all under wood lintels. Central entrance now blocked. Ashlar gable parapets and brick stacks at ends. C18 and C19 extension at rear. Interior not inspected. Included for group value.

{3}Mid 18th century house. Originally probably 3-unit plan. 2 storeys and attic. 4 window range. 18th and 19th extensions at rear. Included for group value.

{4}The Band Club in High Street is a stone building. The Band Club building has undergone several phases of use as Barry Robinson notes' At various times the property contained a butchers, a hairdressers, a bookies, a dairy, a rush mat and basket maker and a bakers'. The ovens are still built into the club, and form part of the beer cellar. Unfortunately, the ovens have now been bricked into the wall and are therefore no longer visible, although are still in existence.

{5} This stone building, formerly a residential dwelling, has been substantially extended and altered. The most fundamental change to the original building has been the removal of the entire first floor level during the 1980s. The extent of the alterations means that few early or original features now remain.
The building is present on a village map dated 1774. There is little decumentary evidence to indicate the development and sequence of later additions but the sspacial relationsships and the materials used would indicate that there are five subsequent phases.
The building was thatched until at least the early years of the twentieth century.

{6} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 22/338 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, p.141 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44832.

<4> Richards K., 2001, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Wollaston, Section 3.3.3 (Report). SNN101566.

<5> Prentice J., 2011, Archaeological Assessment of Buildings at 86 High Street, Wollaston, Northamptonshire July 2011, (checked) (Report). SNN107510.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Wollaston (Photographs). SNN115383.

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