Description

NZ 01 SE WYCLIFFE WITH THORPE A66
(North side, off)

6/188 Thorpe Grange
12.1.67 Farmhouse

GV II

House, formerly Inn. Late C18, reduced in size after 1944 fire. Squared
stone with cut dressings; graduated stone slate roof. L-plan. 2 storeys,
3 windows. Rusticated quoins. Left fielded-panel door with 3-pane overlight
in architrave with moulded frieze and cornice; right old bow windows with 8,-
12-and 8-pane sashes, beaded frieze and flat lead top. Renewed 12-pane
sashes in architraves above. Coped gables on moulded kneelers; low corniced
end stacks. Rear wing on right return shows 4-pane sash with renewed 12-pane
sash above.

Historical note; house is claimed to be the former George and New Inn, at
which Charles Dickens stayed while researching 'Nicholas Nickleby'.

C20 extension to rear and single-storey wing on west (replacing 3 bays of
original house destroyed in the fire)are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ0932112770

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26454869

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Recommended Books

• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House