Building record 6957/1 - Hollowell Grange

Farm constructed in a single phase between 1820 and 1848 in a rectangular courtyard plan. Constructed from brick and Welsh slate. Originally part of the Cottesbrooke Estate

{1} A building recording survey was undertaken of outbuildings at Hollowell Grange prior to conversion to residential use.
The farm first appears on the 1848 Tithe Map. The building is a single phase and is brick-built in local red bricks in a Flemish Garden Wall bond (3 stretcher bricks to 1 header brick in each course) under hipped and gabled Welsh slate roofs with some late corrugated asbestos cement roofs. Abutting the domestic range is a sunken dairy, probably for domestic use. Other ranges include fodder barns, cart shed and cow houses.
The farm was built on land belonging to the Cottesbrooke Estate following a model farm design. The farm appears to have originally been a farm of some status, with an attractively finished house, semi formal gardens and a possible walled garden to the south.

<1> Richards, G., 2019, An Archaeological Standing Building Survey of Outbuildings Associated with Hollowell Grange, Hollowell, Northamptonshire (Report). SNN111432.

<2> Crank, N. (Editor), 2019, South Midlands Archaeology (49), p. 67 (Journal). SNN111755.

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Feb 25 2025 8:13PM