159, Main Street

YAXLEY MAIN STREET TL 1891 (South-East Side) 21/178 No 159 13.12.57 GV II House. Mid to late C18 with C19 alterations. Dated rainwater head '1832'. Local gault brick and coursed limestone rubble with limestone dressings. Collyweston stone slated, and Welsh slated roofs. Two storeys and and attics main range with one storey and attic ranges to rear forming a L-plan. End stacks, tumbled brick parapet gables with moulded brick corbels; moulded wooden eaves cornice. Central doorway with stone step, four-panelled C20 door, and Tuscan pedimented wooden doorcase. Two flanking bay windows with dentil enrichment to cornices. Two first floor tripartite hung sash windows in flat brick arches and round head window above door. Rain water head dated 1832 on north-east gable wall. Interior: Original details open string staircase of four flights with moulded hand rail and turned balusters; half panelling to ground floor rooms and complete panelling to south-west first floor room and shouldered chimney piece, six panelled doors and moulded wooden architrave, shuttered first floor windows. Cast iron garden boundary railings and matching gates and piers.

Listing NGR: TL1821191981