Seawell Grounds Farmhouse And Attached Outbuildings

BLAKESLEY SP65SW 2/29 Seawell Grounds Farmhouse and 01/12/51 attached outbuildings (Formerly listed as Seawell Farmhouse and farm buildings)

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Farmhouse. c.1840, altered in C20 renovation. Coursed squared ironstone, hipped slate roofs, stone ridge and internal stacks. 2-storey, 3-window central block with lower 2-storey, 2-window wings either side. Central double-leaf, part-glazed, door with panelled reveals and limestone porch with square columns supporting plain frieze and cornice. 12-pane sash windows to ground and first floors with flat-arched heads. Plinth, storey band and deep overhanging eaves. Porch widened and rebuilt C20 and right ground floor window of left wing has had sill dropped and made into garden door. Symmetrical composition completed by single-storey outbuilding wings, each with 4 blank round-headed arches with imposts. That to left housed cart-shed open to yard to rear, now garaging. That to right is joined to extensive, altered range of farm buildings on three sides of yard to rear. Interior has stone-flagged floors and some original stone chimneypieces. Square pillars of porch originally circular, unfluted Doric columns; changed in C20 alterations. One of a number of model farms built for the 4th Duke of Grafton 1839-44. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p,107; The Northamptonshire Landscape, J. Steane, 1974, p.240-1).

Listing NGR: SP6288052166