61 And 63, Abbey Street

TL 4845 ICKLETON ABBEY STREET (South-east side) 22.11.67 21/197 Nos. 61 and 63 (formerly listed as Butcher's shop) GV II Farmhouse. Late C16 with early to mid C17 range to rear and C19 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered with flint and red brick dressings and painted brick casing. Red plain tiled and C20 plain tiled roofs. Two storeys; original three unit plan to main street range refronted in C19. Entrance with half glazed panelled door and reeded doorcase with corner bosses; three-light casement window to right hand and later inserted windows to left hand. Three large gabled dormer windows. C17 red brick ridge stack to left of centre with sawtooth brick cornice and two rebuilt diagonal shafts. Two similar rebuilt shafts to rear ridge stack. Lozenge-shaped pargetted panel dated 1684 with an enriched boarder on north-east wall similar to another on the same wall now destroyed. Interior: Sealed hearths, stop-chamfered ceiling beams; evidence in former butcher's shop for division of original service rooms to north-east of street range. RCHM Report 1949

Listing NGR: TL4906343554