Description

BLAKESLEY CHURCH STREET
SP6250 (East side)
10/34 No.12a (Walnut Farm House)
01/12/51 (Formerly listed as building,
now used as stables
immediately North-East of
Vicarage)

GV II

House. Dated 1689, renovated C20. Coursed ironstone rubble with limestone
dressings, old plain-tile roof. 2-unit plan. 2-storey, 5-window range. Central
6-panel door with timber lintel. 2-light C20 casement windows to ground and
first floors with timber lintels. Gable ends have 2-light flat-faced stone
mullion leaded windows with moulded sills and surrounds and circular window in
gable with moulded stone surround. Similar 2-light windows to rear elevation
facing churchyard. Plinth, quoins, storey band, moulded stone eaves and
stone-coped gables with kneelers, all of limestone. Interior noted as having
open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer and stop-chamfered spine beam. Long
used as an outbuilding, formerly perhaps school house. Datestone inscribed
TP/1689 has been removed from exterior and placed inside.
(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.107).

Listing NGR: SP6271950434

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26292776

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)