Building record 1027/0/9 - Farm buildings, Cedars Farm

Group of late 18th/early 19th century brick and stone farm buildings which were recorded prior to development. The boundary wall incorporates some elements of the former farmhouse, which was demolished in the 1960s.

{1} A group of four former agricultural buildings and a boundary wall associated with Cedars Farm were recorded prior to development. Cedars Farmhouse, which was demolished in the 1960s, bounded Thornby Road. The present boundary wall retains some elements of the demolished farmhouse including a stone-framed bricked in window; the hood mouldings suggest an 18th or even late 17th century origin. The surrounding wall is built from coursed ironstone which retains lime-based wall plaster. Further blocked windows and doors also survive. A stone plaque with the date 1642 and the initials WL has been inserted into a blocked doorway and this may be from the farmhouse.
Of the surviving buildings, one on the western boundary of the site may form part of a former farmhouse as it was dominated by a large fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressumer beam supporting a brick-built chimney hood. There was probably a copper to the east. It uses part of the ironstone wall of the demolished farmhouse and may be late 18th/early 19th-century in date, although it was modified in the 19th century becoming a farm building. There was no evidence of any doorways into the adjoining farmhouse. Two of the other buildings probably date to the later 19th century and a cartshed was first shown on the 1900 Ordnance Survey map.

<1> Hyam, A, 2022, A Level 2 Historic Building Recording at Cedars Farm, Thornby Road, Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, https://doi.org/10.5284/1113927 (Report). SNN113762.

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Feb 25 2025 7:14PM