Building record 2882/0/130 - Olde World Cottage (Rear of No 26 High Street)

An 18th century house located on the northern side of the High Street, behind Number 26. The building is orientated perpendicular to the street with its main entrance facade on the eastern side. The building is constructed of coursed rubble and ashlar with a double pitch Collyweston slate roof with gable and ridge chimney stacks and raised parapets. A small gabled range is attached to the south with a wooden entrance porch to its east. The house is two storys high with an attic range lit by a gabled roof dormer and a two light casement window in the south facing gable. The east facing facade has two casement windows under wooden lintels on the first floor, above two small casements to the ground floor right.

{1} Two storeys and attics, single-room house with gable entrance opposite the fireplace, 18th-century; parapeted gables.

{2} An 18th century house. The building is orientated perpendicular to the street with its main entrance facade on the eastern side. The building is constructed of coursed rubble and ashlar with a double pitch Collyweston slate roof with end and ridge chimney stacks and raised parapets. A small gabled range is attached to the south with a wooden entrance porch to its east. The house is two storey's high with an attic range lit by a gabled roof dormer and a two light casement window in the south facing gable. The east facing façade has two casement windows under wooden lintels on the first floor, above two small casements to the ground floor right.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 34/site 16 (Series). SNN77384.

<2> Historic England, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments- Building File (Oral Report). SNN71057.

<3> Historic England, OLDE WORLD COTTAGE, COLLYWESTON, BF084583 (Archive). SNN114772.

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Feb 17 2025 7:07PM