Building record 2853/0/146 - No. 56, 58, 60 West Street, King's Cliffe

A row of early 19th century terraced houses located on the northern side of West Street. The row has been constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings with a continuous double pitch roof with ridge chimney stacks between each bay. Each house is two stories high with an attic range lit by a hipped dormer window. The upper floor to each range has a three light casement window under flat arches. The ground floor to each house has a doorway on the right and a window on the left. The ground floor windows on numbers 58 and 60 are canted bays, with three light casements to number 56.

{1} A row of three houses, two storeys and attics in front, one storey at rear, hipped dormers, class 7 (urban houses), early 19th century. Openings mostly with stone lintels and keystones. Later in the century two bow-fronted bay windows were added to Nos. 58 and 60. Adjoining on the east a building of similar character but with straight joint between, now belonging to No 54.

{2} A row of early 19th century terraced houses. The row has been constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings with a continuous double pitch roof with ridge stacks between each bay. Each house is two stories high with an attic range lit by a hipped dormer window. The upper floor to each range has a three light casement window under flat arches. The ground floor to each house has a doorway on the right and a window on the left. The ground floor windows on numbers 58 and 60 are canted bays, with three light casements to number 56.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 104, site 61 (Series). SNN77384.

<2> Historic England, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments- Building File, 56-60 West Street, Kings Cliffe, Ref: BF084179 (Oral Report). SNN71057.

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