Building record 2882/2/4 - Outbuilding, possible Former Summerhouse or Dovecote, south-west of Manor Farmhouse

Outbuilding may have been a summerhouse. Square head doorway, with chamfered stone surround, and oval window with stone surround.

{1} Shown on 1841 Enclosure Map.

{3} Sundial, attached walls and outbuilding. Probably late C17 with C18 sundial. Squared coursed limestone, sundial has ashlar façade, outbuilding has Collyweston slate roof. The walls form 3 sides of former kitchen garden. Square head doorway, set in east wall spur, has moulded stone surround. Outbuilding in south-west corner, may have been a summerhouse. Square head doorway, with chamfered stone surround, and oval window with stone surround. East wall continues southwards to cottage in Hall Yarn (not included). The walls may have been the kitchen garden walls to the house built on the site of Collyweston Palace. The Palace, which had been the home of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond was dismantled about 1640. A new house was built on the site by the Tryon family probably in the mid/late C17.

{4} Nearby, a doorway with moulded freestone architrave and an oval window, reset in a garden shed, date from the late C17th.

<1> 1841, Collyweston Enclosure Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN102458.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G11 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 8/35 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.34 (checked) (Series). SNN77384.

Record last edited

Feb 1 2022 12:11PM