Description

SP 75 SE STOKE BRUERNE

4/153 Stoke Plain Farmhouse
01/12/51 (Formerly listed as Stoke
Plain including farmbuildings)

GV II

Farmhouse. c.1840. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roofs, stone internal stacks.
Double-depth plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Central double-leaf part-glazed
doors approached by 3 stone steps, in stone porch with unfluted Doric columns
supporting entablature with triglyphs to frieze and deep moulded cornice.
12-pane sash windows with stone lintels and keyblocks. Plinth, storey band and
band below deep projecting eaves. Lower symmetrical 2-storey wings attached to
rear angles of main block have similar windows, plinth and storey band. That to
left houses former wash-house and has blank windows to first floor. Interior not
inspected. With farm buildings (q.v.) one of a number of model farms built for
the 4th Duke of Grafton 1839-44.
(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p417; Grafton papers deposited in
Northants Record Office; J. Steene, The Northamptonshire Landscape 1974,
pp240-1)

Listing NGR: SP7370250248

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26292828

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