Number 53 (Manor Farmhouse) And Attached Stables

WOODNEWTON MAIN STREET TL0394 (South side) 19/217 No.53 (Manor Farmhouse) and attached stables GV II Farmhouse. C17 origins reconstructed late C19. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings. Collyweston and Welsh slate roofs. 2-unit plan with central hall. 2 storeys. 4-window range of chamfered stone mullion windows. Centre 2 windows to first floor are of 2-lights, other flanking windows are of 3-lights. Similar single-light window to ground floor, right of centre. 6-panel door to left of centre, is under wood lintel. Ashlar quoins. Ashlar gable parapets and ashlar end stacks, each with pulvinated frieze. One bay, attached to left, may have been a separate dwelling. C18 stables, attached at right angles to rear, have plank doors under wood lintels and 3 hipped dormers. Chamfered plinth and Collyweston slate roof. Part of this range may have been a barn. Interior of house not inspected but noted as having remains of open fireplaces with bressumers. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p170)

Listing NGR: TL0334794443