Charlock Farmhouse

ABTHORPE BUCKNELL WOOD SP64NE 6/1 Charlock Farmhouse and 01/12/51 attached outbuildings (Formerly listed as Charlock Farmhouse and farm buildings)

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Farmhouse. c.1840. Coursed squared limestone, hipped slate roofs, white brick ridge and lateral 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 shallow porch of unfluted Doric columns supporting full entablature and pediment. 12-pane sash windows to ground and first floors. Those to central block have stone lintels and keyblocks; those to wings have segmental-arched heads. Central bay breaks forward and has low pedimental gable with string course at base and blank rectangular sunk panel. Plinth and storey band to central block. The symmetrical composition is completed by single-storey outbuilding wings, each with 3 blank round-headed arches with stone sills. That to left houses a 5-bay cartshed open to yard to rear on timber posts. That to right houses various outbuildings and is joined to extensive, much altered range of farm buildings, which largely encloses yard to rear. Interior: house has open-well staircase with stick balusters and ramped and wreathed handrail. Stone flagged floors. One of a number of model farms built for the 4th Duke of Grafton 1839-44. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.75; The Northamptonshire Landscape, J. Steane, 1974, p.240-1).

Listing NGR: SP6612045075