Jacobean House
JACOBEAN HOUSE, 51, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1052126
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Jacobean House
- Statutory Address:
- JACOBEAN HOUSE, 51, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1052126
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jun-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Jacobean House
- Statutory Address 1:
- JACOBEAN HOUSE, 51, CHURCH 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:
- JACOBEAN HOUSE, 51, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burton Latimer
- National Grid Reference:
- SP9024775084
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/04/2014
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BURTON LATIMER,
CHURCH STREET (North side),
No. 51 (Jacobean House)
(Formerly listed as No. 59 (Jacobean House).
Previously Listed as: Old School, CHURCH STREET, Burton Latimer)
18/01/50
GV II*
School, now house. Dated 1622, enlarged C19, converted 1972.
Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, thatched roof
with coped gables on scrolly kneelers with baluster finials, 3
moulded ashlar stacks (central one modern or reset, replacing
louvre ones to gable ends, truncated) One storey, 4-windows
wide. Central C19 boarded door (though hinges may be original)
flanked by fluted pilasters carrying entablature, with frieze
inscribed "AND THIS HOUSE. WAS BUILT. 1622/THE FRE. SCHOOLE.
WAS. FOUNDED/BY. THOMAS. BURBANKE. AND/MARGARET. HIS. WIFE.
1587/AND MEMORIA. IVISTI. BENEDICTA. P RO 10". Above is a
shaped ashlar gable with finials, which contains geometrical
ornament, a sundial and a cartouche enclosing a shield with an
eagle (?). Windows are of 3 lights with ovolo-moulded stone
mullions and leaded casements on gudgeons, cornices over and
lintels inscribed "EX: DONO: JOHANNIS: MICHEL: X ", "16 DONUM:
IOHANNIS: BARRIFFE: 22", "16+: GEORGIUS: PLOWRIGHT: ME: DEDIT:
+22", "W XARPES CITIUS QUAM IMITABERIS N". Left return has
taller 3-light window with central light stepped, but with the
upper part now a blind panel inscribed to commemorate the 1972
work. Geometrical ornament above. Wing to rear C19, partly
rendered (to disguise scars caused by demolition of later C19
block) and with roof of plain and shaped tiles, originally one
storey but now divided into 2, has ovolo-moulded mullioned
windows (and C20 dormers) Interior: originally one large
school-room, now subdivided. 3 roof trusses, arch-braced to
collar and with drop finial, cross-bracing above. The lower
edges of the arch braces are ovolo-moulded, whilst the upper
edges and the cross-braces are chamfered. 2 tiers of purlins
and C20 rafters. Roof strapped and probably partly renewed in
C19. It is believed that the school was actually founded in
1581 (or possibly even earlier, as Thomas Burbank was
described as "founder of the free school in Burton Latimer" at
his death in 1578) - the date 1587 inscribed here presumably
being a mason's error.
(Northampton and County Independent: June 1981: p.39).
Listing NGR: SP9024775084
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 230960
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Northampton and County Independent in June, (1981), 39
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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