Description

SK 53 SE RUDDINGTON CHAPEL STREET
(south side)

5/98 Framework Knitters'
cottages now part
of Museum complex

G.V. II

4 cottages, now single cottage and museum. c.1829, built by a
speculative builder, restored c.1970. Red brick stretchers,
pink headers. Pantile roof. 2 red brick ridge stacks. Dentil
eaves. Outer single 2 up, 2 down cottages and central single
pair of one up, one down back to back cottages. 2 storeys plus
garret, 7 bays. Having from left to right a doorway with plank
door, a single tripartite glazing bar casement, a single small
glazing bar casement, a similar doorway and door, 2 similar
tripartite casements and a similar doorway and door. All apart
from the small casement under segmental arches. Above are 3
glazing bar casements in enlarged openings being originally
segmental arched glazing bar casements. The only remaining range
of cottages in this complex built specifically to house the
workers of the adjacent framework knitters' workshops. Single
cottage occupied shortly after completion by the knitter, Samuel
Parker, the buildings later purchased by his son William, also a
knitter, but later a hosier. A further generation of the Parker
family occupied the site, vacating it in 1929.

Listing NGR: SK5717032963

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26654844

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback