SNN108096 - Manor Farm, Weedon, Northamptonshire: Recording and analysis of the farmhouse and barns 2007-8

The farmhouse at Weedon's Manor Farm was built on the Watling Street in the early 18th century, perhaps 1710-1720 in the local vernacular style of a simple, three-cell plan. It was later extended twice, the first time around 1800, the second before 1860. For much of the 18th and 19th century it was better known as the Bull INN, a coaching inn. It is listed Grade II. A series of outbuildings, listed by cartilage, lie to its rear. These constitute a complex of farm ranges which have grown through a process of accretion, being of different phases of construction, The earliest is probably coeval with the farmhouse, while the others are of a variety of dates as late as 1885-1905, depicted variously on a long sequence of maps. Together they constituted a working farm given over to a mixed arable and pastoral regime, Few interior fixtures or fittings survived in the farmhouse while none survived to be recorded in the outbuildings. Numerous other outbuildings are attested in documents, but which did not survive into the modern period. The complex was much denuded, inside and out.