Church Farmhouse And Attached Outbuildings

TL0490 17/47 23/05/67

COTTERSTOCK CHURCH LANE (East side) Church Farmhouse and attached outbuildings

(Formerly listed as Church or Manor Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse. C14 origins, mainly C17 and C18, part rebuilt C19. Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate and pantile roofs. Original plan indeterminate, now 4 units, 3 storeys. 4-window range. 2 bays to right have leaded casements, under wood lintels, to ground floor and first floor right of centre. 4-light, ovolo-moulded, stone mullion window to first floor far right. 2 bays to left have various sized C19 casement windows, with chamfered stone surrounds, to ground, first and second floors. C19 plank door to left of centre has similar surround. Stone ridge and end stacks with moulded cornices. 2 bays to left probably rebuilt C19. Right gable has a 3-light stone mullion window, now blocked. Rear elevation has irregular 4-window range of C19 casements, some with glazing bars, under wood lintels. Part-glazed door, to right of centre, is also under wood lintel. There is a slight change of plane from a point to the left of centre. C19 single-storey outbuildings have lean-to pantile roof which abuts retaining wall linking with Church of St. Andrews (q.v.). Interior of house not inspected but retaining wall said to have blocked openings; probably of medieval origin. Probably incorporates domestic buildings of Chantry College founded by John Gifford in 1338 and attached to the Church of St. Andrew. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p43)

Listing NGR: TL0492490568