Building record 5432/0/13 - Outbuildings to Brook House, King Street

Three outbuildings of C17 origin with C19 and C20 additions and alterations.

{1} Identified by South Northamptonshire Council as being a building of historic and/or architectural significance.

{2} Reasons for currently not Listing the Building
Brook House, King Street, Maidford, a C17 vernacular building is not recommended for designation for the following principal reasons:

* Intactness: the buildings do not retain a significant proportion of historic fabric and have been extensively altered.

* Interior: no notable features survive in the building

History
The outbuildings to Brook House are believed to date from the C17 with alterations made in the C19 and C20. The buildings were incorporated into the grounds of The Villas (now Brook House) around 1850 when the main house was built by a local lace merchant, Mr Leopold Stanton.

Details
Three outbuildings of C17 origin, with C19 and C20 additions and alterations, currently used as a garage, a barn and a store. The latter was formerly a cottage.

MATERIALS: The earliest parts of the buildings, fronting King Street, are constructed of coursed squared ironstone with dressed ironstone quoins.

EXTERIOR: The store building (formerly a cottage) stands to one and half storeys and retains squared and dressed ironstone up to a height of c1.70m on the street front, but is topped, abutted and infilled elsewhere by C19 squared rubble to roof height. The roof covering is a combination of corrugated metal sheeting and slate. A blocked, stone mullioned window with hood mould detailing, survives in the side elevation and is the primary datable element of the building. A second, small blocked opening is evident on the rear elevation, although little of the rear elevation is extant.

The gable end of the free standing garage comprises C17 fabric, and includes a blocked window with hood mould detailing, which is believed to date to this period. A second, blocked opening is also evident but without any surviving detailing. The other three walls are a combination of brick, timber and ironstone rubble construction and date to the C19 and C20, with a C20 garage door in the south eastern elevation. The roof is of slate.

The barn is a single-story building with a hay loft above, built of squared rubble construction and corrugated metal sheet roof. This building abuts the store but is believed to be a C19 construction with some reuse of earlier material.

INTERIOR: Inside, the ground floor of the store is a single, L-shaped room, the walls and ceiling of which are supported on props. Two chamfered cross beams support the floor above but no stairs survive and the instability of the structure rendered the upper floor inaccessible. The position of the chimney stack is evident as a blackened channel in the wall but the main structure of the flue has been removed.

The single-cell barn, of rectangular plan, retains suspended hay racks on the ground floor with the hay loft above.

<1> SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNCIL, 2012, South Northamptonshire Council Survey of Significant Historic Buildings, (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN108984.

<2> ENGLISH HERITAGE, 2013, English Heritage Advice Report: Outbuildings to Brook House, Maidford, Northamptonshire (Report). SNN109381.

Record last edited

Apr 1 2022 11:23AM