Building record 2853/0/141 - 40 West Street, King's Cliffe

A post medieval shop that was built in 1841 located on the northern side of West Street. The building has been constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings and a hipped Welsh slate roof. It is three stories high with a cellar and is four bays wide. The two outer bays have large segmental headed carriage arches, the right one being partially blocked and glazed. The two inner bays have a central shop door with large shop windows ether side. Above the ground floor is a freestone floor band and four large sash windows and a further four small sash windows to the top story.

{1} Built as a shop and house by William Wyles, Grocer (Census 1851), three storeys and cellar, platband, hipped Welsh-slated roof, mid 19th century. In four bays, the outer two breaking forward and at ground floor wide openings with segmental arches; that on the west for a carriage entry, that on the east always glazed. It had a shop, sitting room, kitchen, scullery etc on the ground floor, two chambers and a drawing room on the first and four rooms or warehouse above (Mercury, 10 June 1868).

{2} The site of a post medieval shop that was built in 1841. The building has been constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings and a hipped Welsh slate roof. It is three stories high with a cellar and is four bays wide. The two outer bays have large segmental headed carriage arches, the right one being partially blocked and glazed. The two inner bays have a central shop door with large shop windows ether side. Above the ground floor is a freestone floor band and four large sash windows and a further four small sash windows to the top story.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 103/site 57 (Series). SNN77384.

<2> Historic England, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments- Building File, 40 West Street, Kings Cliffe, Ref: BF084175 (Oral Report). SNN71057.

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Feb 5 2025 7:32PM