22 High Street
22, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1040784
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 22 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 22, High Street
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- Date:
- 1999-10-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/00600/30
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1040784
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 22 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 22, High Street
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 22, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Easton Maudit
- National Grid Reference:
- SP8883558740
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 November 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
SP85NE
9/63
02/08/72
EASTON MAUDIT
HIGH STREET (West side)
No.22
GV
II*
House. Circa 1500 with C16 and C17 alterations, partly altered and enlarged in the mid C19. Regular coursed limestone with longstraw thatched and pantile roofs. Brick stacks.
Plan: Three unit and cross passage plan, altered probably in the late C16 by the insertion of a smoke hood in the cross passage. Lower (left-hand) end rebuilt as parlour wing probably in the late C16 or early C17. End stack probably later (see blocked windows in gable end). Smoke hood probably removed in mid C17 when floor in hall inserted, and stack inserted at upper (right-hand) end of hall at same time with new doorway in front wall forming baffle entry (see straight joints). Upper (right-hand) end rebuilt, with lean-to roof, probably in the mid C19, and wing added at right angles to rear. Two storeys.
Three windows to first floor and four to ground floor; C19 two-and three-light small-paned wooden casements with wooden lintels, second ground-floor window from left formerly cross passage entrance (see straight joints beneath) and right-hand ground-floor window formerly baffle entry (see straight joints). Tall two-light mezzanine window in altered right-hand end. Left-hand gable end with ground-and first-floor small-paned two-light wooden casements to right. Ground-floor window replacing a doorway and first floor window a late C20 insertion. Blocked central windows to each floor (see straight joints and lintels). Entrance now in right-hand end wall.
Interior: Two-bay smoke-blackened medieval roof over hall. Raised cruck truss with arched-braced collar, butt purlins and diagonally-set ridge piece. Smoke-blackened reed fleeking over rafters with original blackened woven fixings and also unblackened straw rope fixings of later rethatching. Remains of timber framed smoke hood with wattle and daub infill panels (smoke-blackened on inside only). Two-bay probably early C17 roof over rebuilt lower end with notched-lap collar trusses and wind braces. Hall with remains of smoke hood consisting of sawn-off bressumer in front wall supported on shaped wooden corbel. Chamfered spine beam and joists, and C17 stone fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel. Left-hand end room with chamfered transverse beam and joists, and fireplace with reused moulded stone jambs.
Listing NGR: SP8883558740
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 233341
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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