Building record 445/0/56 - The Retreat and adjacent former shop, No.62 Main Road

House built in the mid 19th century. Locally listed building.

{1} No.62 Main Road, also known as “The Retreat”, is a mid-19th century cottage similar in style to several contemporary cottages such as Marsh House and Spencer House. It has two storeys and three bays with timber sliding sash windows with margin lights, and a four plank door with a classically styled surround with pilasters and a canopy with corbel detailing. The windows also have segmented stone arches above with keystone detail. The slate roof is pitched, with coped gables and a large
brick stack at the apex on the western gable end. To the left is a former barn standing gable end on the highway, partially built in ironstone, and overbuilt in brick, with a pitched roof (now roof with modern asbestos tile). It was used later as a motor-repair shop, most likely as it stood on Main Road which was a turnpike. The shopfront has been restored.
Between the shop and No.62 there is a timber unit with a plank door occupying the upper storey- possibly used for storage when the barn was a business. These buildings form a grouping with the grade II listed No.64 Main Road “Box Cottage”.

<1> Daventry District Council, 2020, Crick Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan, p. 66 (Policy Document). SNN112346.

Record last edited

May 12 2025 8:59AM