Monument record 727/0/13 - The Plank House.

{1}Small post enclosure brick house circa 1800 erected by a smallholder or grazier on the edge of Towcester close to a bridging point of the Silverstone Brook where there was an existing small suburb known as the Plank Houses.It was of brick construction, tow and a half storeys high with the primary frontage facing southeast. Each floor contained two and a half storeys high witrh the primary frontage facing southeast. Each floor contained two rooms and dormer windows lighted the attic rooms. On the ground floor there was kitchen with a brick inglenook or a coal grate and an unheated room adjacent which contained the staircase. The main entrance appears to have been into this room from the south or garden side.The building stands empty and has been vandalised, few original features survive and the building has been radically altered.

<1> Giggins, B., 1997, The Plank House, Meadow Court, Towcester, Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Report). SNN48290.

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