Poplars House
POPLARS HOUSE, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041003
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Poplars House
- Statutory Address:
- POPLARS HOUSE, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041003
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Poplars House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POPLARS HOUSE, NORTH 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:
- POPLARS HOUSE, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rothersthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP7148456882
Details
SP75NW
5/186
03/05/87
ROTHERSTHORPE
NORTH STREET
(North side)
Poplars House
GV
II
House, formerly farmhouse. c.1700 altered C18 and C19, Coursed squared
ironstone, thatch roof, stone end and ridge stacks, brick end stack to left.
L-plan with through-passage. 2 storeys and attic 5-window range. 6-panel door
to right of centre with pegged wood surround, wood lintel and straight hood on
brackets. Blacked door to left with moulded stone surround. Pair of 16-pane sash
windows to right with stop-chamfered wood lintels. Otherwise 2-light casement
windows to ground and 1st. floors with stone surrounds-of original stone mullion
windows. Blocked window to 1st floor left. Projecting wing to far left has
similar 2-light windows to right side, a blacked cellar and ground floor window
to gable end, 3-light casement window to 1st floor replacing stone mullion
window and pair of blacked vertical oval windows to gable with keyed stone
surrounds, chamfered plinth and quoins and stone-coped gables with kneelers.
Left side elevation has one 2-light ovolo-moulded 1st floor window. Rear
elevation has C20 plank door to right of centre with chamfered stone jambs and
moulded stone lintel. Full height stair turret to left of centre has blocked
2-light stone mullion cellar window, pair of stepped 1-light windows lighting
flights to ground arid 1st floors with moulded stone surrounds and hood moulds,
blocked circular window with moulded stone surround, and stone-coped gable with
kneelers. 16-pane window to ground floor far left with wood lintel, 2- and 5-
light casement windows to ground floor with moulded stone surrounds of original
Stone mullion windows. 1st floor has 4-light ovolo-notilded stone mullion leaded
window to far left, similar 2-light windows to left of stair turret and above
of and similar 3-light window to right of turret. Gabled dormer window above
latter with similar 3-light window. Interior: Dog-leg staircase from ground
floor to attic with turned balusters. Ogee stop-chamfered spine beams. One room
with fielded panelling and 2 fitted cupboards with round-arched heads and shaped
shelves. Similar cupboard in another room. Stone-flagged hall. Stone cellar.
Listing NGR: SP7148456882
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234817
- 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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