Building record 2888/0/86 - Former Schoolhouse, Schoolroom and Post Office, High Street

A two story house and post office with an adjoining single story schoolroom that were built in 1842 are situated on the eastern side of the High Street, opposite the junction with Todds Hill. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with double pitch Welsh slate roofs with a large decorated ashlar chimney stack at the northern gable. The house and post office is L plan in shape with a north facing and High Street facade. The northern facade has a large sash window to the right and a small window to the far left with a horizontal stone opening inscribed 'letter box' to the centre left. The High Street elevation has two sliding sash windows to the second floor with two similar longer sashes below. The schoolroom is joined to the house at its southern gable and has two doors on the far left and far right with a two light casement window in the centre. All the openings have flat gauged arches and the door to the left has a decorated rectangular fanlight. The northern gable has a datestone inscribed: HJ 1842.

{4} Former Schoolhouse, Schoolroom and Post Office. In 1667 William Jackson left £50 to build a school and an endowment of £10 a year for a master to teach twelve poor children. This was replaced in 1842 by the present building, a two-storey house of two-room plan and a girls' schoolroom; a nearby thatched cottage was converted to a boys' school. A stone panel is inscribed 'HJ 1842' for Hugh Jackson. In the north wall of the house is a stone slab with a blocked opening, inscribed 'letter box'; a post office was established here in 1844 and Edward Wheelband was schoolmaster and postmaster (Mercury, 28 June 1844; Kelly 1847). In 1891-2 a new school building designed by J B Corby of Stamford was built by W Goddard Jackson.

{6} A two story house and post office with an adjoining single story schoolroom that were built in 1842. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with double pitch Welsh slate roofs with a large decorated ashlar chimney stack at the northern gable. The house and post office is L plan in shape with a north facing and High Street façade. The northern façade has a large sash window to the right and a small window to the far left with a horizontal stone opening inscribed 'letter box' to the centre left. The High Street elevation has two sliding sash windows to the second floor with two similar longer sashes below. The schoolroom is joined to the house at its southern gable and has two doors on the far left and far right with a two light casement window in the centre. All the openings have flat gauged arches and the door to the left has a decorated rectangular fanlight. The northern gable has a datestone inscribed: HJ 1842.

<1> 1775, Duddington Enclosure Map (NRO 2857), (unchecked) (Map). SNN102479.

<2> 1798, Duddington Map (NRO 3633), (unchecked) (Map). SNN102480.

<3> 1815, Duddington NRO J(D) 603, (unchecked) (Map). SNN102481.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 47/site 10 (Series). SNN77384.

<5> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 240 (Book). SNN111989.

<6> Historic England, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments- Building File (Oral Report). SNN71057.

<7> Historic England, Undated, HOUSE , DUDDINGTON WITH FINESHADE, BF084624 (Archive). SNN114483.

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Feb 17 2025 7:06PM