Building record 1244/9/3 - Dower House outbuildings

{1} The range of outbuildings are seen on maps dating back to 1840.
The stables still contain the principal features relating to the building's former use although it is now use for storage. Connecting to the stables is the former coach house. This has been fully fitted out as store rooms so no eivdence of its former use could be seen. However it still retains its main double coach-house doors.
The tack room is still fully boarded in the manner of such functional rooms, and the vestiges of a doorway can be seen in the end gable wall, indicating that the tack room was once linked with the now-lost middle building in the range.
The panelling partly covers this doorway so it is possible that the use of this building as a tackroom may postdate the lostt of the middle building between 1914 and 1925.
At the far NE end of the yard is the garden stoe and workshop. This can be seen in phots of 1967 and 1970s to have had a pitched roof although it is now flat. The walls retain evidence of what may be the earliest farm building on the site.

<1> Soden, I. & Prentice, J., 2006, The Old Dower House, Cosgrove, Northamptonshire: Archaeological buildings recording and analysis, (checked) (Report). SNN108002.

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Jun 6 2016 3:24PM