Building record 2853/0/139 - 36 West Street, King's Cliffe

A mid 19th century house located on the northern side of West Street. The house is two stories high with a Welsh slate roof. All the openings have stone lintels with keystones and casement windows. A chapel once stood to the rear of this house.

{1} Two storeys, freestone dressings, class 7 (urban house), early 19th-century. A side passage leads to a yard with the footings (9mx6m approx) of a former Baptist chapel which is said to have been built in 1840 as a Calvinistic Chapel (Whellan, 696). In 1844 a newly built cottage, presumably No 36, was surrendered to RH Ireson, a Dissenting Minister; the cottage and chapel were then mortgaged.

{2} The site of a mid 19th century house. The house is two stories high with a Welsh slate roof. All the openings have stone lintels with keystones and casement windows. A chapel once stood to the rear of this house.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 103/site 55 (Series). SNN77384.

<2> Historic England, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments- Building File, Baptist Chapel, Kings Cliffe, Ref: BF084173 (Oral Report). SNN71057.

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Feb 5 2025 7:32PM