SNN112987 - Site Data from Historic Building Recording at Drayton Lodge Farm, Staverton Road, Daventry, Northamptonshire 2021

This collection comprises site images and digitised survey drawings from historic building recording at Drayton Lodge Farm undertaken by Ric Tyler in September 2021. A programme of pre-demolition building recording was undertaken in respect of a series of residential and agricultural outbuildings at Drayton Lodge Farm in response to a condition of planning consent for the large-scale redevelopment of the wider farmstead site. Drayton Lodge Farm occupies an isolated site on the north side of the old Staverton Road, just beyond the western boundary of the modern town of Daventry. The farmstead comprises a series of buildings occupying a (modified) full, regular courtyard plan, with buildings arranged along the eastern, southern, western and northern sides of a central foldyard. Three principal structures of early date and heritage interest survive, viz. the main farmhouse, of two principal phases, and an adjacent two-storey outbuilding to the south thereof, with a further, former shelter shed flanking the south side of the yard. The remaining traditional farm buildings, evident from historical mapping, had been largely replaced by 20th-century utilitarian structures of no heritage interest. None of the constituent buildings were statutorily or locally listed, nor were they located within a designated Conservation Area or included on the Northamptonshire HER, though they had been identified as 'non-designated heritage assets' at an earlier stage of the planning process. The project allowed for a descriptive and graphic record of the farmstead buildings to be made to a level commensurate with a hybrid 'Level 1/2' standard as defined by Historic England in 'Understanding Historic Buildings: A Guide to Good Recording Practice', with structures recorded according to their acknowledged relative significance.