47, West Street

No. 47 West Street is a later 17th-century house that was refronted in the early 19th century. It is built in ashlar and has two storeys with a steep stone slate roof, featuring verges and plain kneelers on the gables. The chimney stacks are located on both gables; the east end has stone stacks with paired flues topped by an entablature, while the west end has late brick flues with original stone tops. The front of the house is symmetrical, with five windows that are sash style set in narrow wooden oases, featuring shallow reveals and flat arched heads. The doorway has a semi-circular arched head. A rainwater head on the front is dated 1824. There is a walled-up two-light stone mullioned window on the first floor of the west end gable, a five-light mullioned window on the first floor of the rear wing, and another five-light mullioned window at the north end of the same wing. This building is part of a group that includes Nos. 15 to 19 (odd), 25, and 33 to 53 (odd), along with the Church of St. Wilfred, Paine's Almshouses, and Oundle Congregational Church.