SNN111166 - Historic Building Recording: 50 Market Place, Brackley, Northamptonshire

In May 2007 ASC carried out historic building recording of 50 Market Place, Brackley in response to proposals for the conversion of buildings on the site for residential use. The property is a complex of three rubble stone buildings with a narrow carriageway to the south and a stone outhouse in the walled garden to the rear. The earliest building is te L-shaped structure on the street frontage which is probably early 18th century. The second floor of the street range appears to have been raised in the late 18th century, when the new window openings with box seats were created, the brickwork added to the chimneys and display cupboards added. The building to the rear is of a similar date, but appears to have functioned separately. It has a double chimney serving an inglenook fireplace and a large blocked window in the first floor opening onto the more easily accessible lane to the north of the property. It is thought possible that this functioned in some sort of commercial aspect such as cookhouse or brewhouse with goods going in/out of the window.