Building record 46/9/8 - Late medieval farm building

{1} Building VIII: Outhouse
4 bay two storey structure following kink of boundary wall to rear. Window in west gable at 1st floor, door and two windows at front with modern garage door on right. The door has a low-pointed timber lintel, and windows have timber lintels and ?original frames, all painted black. Well-coursed rubble wall on west, less even on south side to yard: outline of blocked door visible in north wall towards west corner. Modern corrugated asbestos roof.
Now divided into stable and tack room (by brick and timber partition) and garage (by stone partition). The tack room has an oven door and inaccessible room/cupboard/staircase to rear. Garage has plain purlin roof of no age, and modern 1st floor (and unplastered walls). Stable has old roof truss, plastered and whitewashed walls. Truss is dark ?sooted with no tie, lap dovetailed collar, two but purlins each side slotted on free tenons: black looks like smoke blackening, but is most likely a stain, so probably an unheated upstairs room. Blocked doorway between garage and tack room, beneath timber lintel, adjacent to timber stairs. 16th or 27th century. First shown on the earliest map of the site dated 1696.

Building IX: Woodshed
Separate low shed at end of garage, recessed stone front wall, low pitch roof of asbestos, made C19th? against boundary walls. Probably the same building shown on OS 1st edition 25” plan of 1883. Traditional shed, possibly replacing previous similar structure in space between outhouse and boundary wall.

{3} Identified by South Northamptonshire Council as being a building of historic and/or architectural significance.

<1> OXFORD ARCHAEOLOGICAL UNIT, 1999, Land at College Farm, Aynho, Northamptonshire: Archaeological Desk Based Assessment and Building Recording, (checked) (Report). SNN43379.

<2> 1696/1720, The Topographical Descripton of the Lordship of the Manor of Aynho, Being the Land of Thomas Cartwright Esquire (NRO Map 4612 C(A)6268 (Map of Aynho)), (unchecked) (Map). SNN109339.

<3> SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNCIL, 2012, South Northamptonshire Council Survey of Significant Historic Buildings, (checked) (Catalogue). SNN108984.

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May 21 2014 10:20AM