SNN115353 - Land at the former Greenfield Lodge Cottages, Strixton, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN29 7PB

Archaeological recording (watching brief) was carried out during June 2021 on land at the former Greenfield Lodge Cottages, Strixton, Northamptonshire in connection with a replacement dwelling and associated carport. The work followed a Level 2 programme of historic building recording of the pair of former cottages prior to demolition to better understand the construction and development of the cottages. Both the house and agricultural buildings of the mid C19 model-farm at Greenfield Lodge are good examples of their types. The former cottages and outbuildings themselves represented modest, but up-to-date brick dwellings catering for the farm-workers and their families. It seems most likely that construction of the cottages followed soon after completion of the farm. There was formerly a shared pump at the rear of the cottages and beyond that a service building with small attached buildings, probably WCs, north and south. The HER indicated Romano-British settlement features to the southeast of the development site, the results of the excavation for the new dwelling revealed no evidence of settlement remains pre-dating the construction of the former C19 cottages and outbuildings. Although the development was small in scope, the results suggested that the site lies outside the main area of Romano-British activity to the southeast. The lack of residual finds from the soil overburden supported this hypothesis.