Description

TL0290
16/84
23/05/67

GLAPTHORN
MAIN STREET
(North side)
Church Farm House

GV II

Farmhouse now house. C15 or early C16 origins, mainly mid C18 and C19. Regular
coursed and squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Original
plan indeterminate now double depth. 2 storeys. Main front is 3-window range.
Central 4-panel door under wood lintel. Three-light sash windows also under wood
lintels. Brick stacks at ends. Side elevations are twin gable ends of parallel
gabled roofs. Interior: entrance hall has staircase with stick balustrade,
reconstructed mid C20. Kitchen, to rear left, has open fireplace with high
bressumer. Room to rear right has open fireplace with bressumer and moulded
spine beam, probably reset. Arch-head recess to left wall of fireplace and
squint in rear wall. Cloakroom to rear of entrance hall has late medieval
doorway, now blocked, with chamfered wooden surround and 4-centred arch head.
Evidence of similar doorway, alongside, above kitchen doorway. Included for
group value.
(RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p79)

Listing NGR: TL0240490234

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26292073

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas