Building record 3034/0/11 - Nos 4 & 5, Laxton

Early 19th-century estate cottages

{1} One of a number of early 19th-century estate cottages in the village associated with Laxton Hall. The majority [of the estate cottages] were due to George Freke Evans who, in 1806, engaged Humphry Repton, working in association with his son John Adey Repton, to design the school, parsonage and cottages. On 19 May 1806 Repton said that he was 'proceeding with plans for the village', although in later years he never claimed payment for such work. In the same year the village was surveyed by Mr. Elliott of Duddington. The building of double and treble cottages was paid for in 1807 and 1808. In 1810 John Britton was able to say that Freke Evans had 'erected several new and comfortable cottages for the humble tenants of the village' (Beauties of England and Wales: Northants).

Nos 4 & 5 a pair of asymmetrical design; two dormers belonging to No. 5 replaced by one large gable in c. 1900. The cottages are of different designs but are all of one storey and attics or semi-attics, with coursed rubble walls. Originally they were all thatched but between 1900 and 1914 all except Woodland Cottage were modernized and covered with stone slates and subsequently some have undergone further alteration

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 114/site 6 (Series). SNN77384.

<2> Historic England, Undated, 4-5 MAIN STREET, LAXTON, BF084507 (Archive). SNN116103.

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