8 Lumber Lane
8 Lumber Lane, Paulerspury, Towcester, NN12 7ND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190294
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 8 Lumber Lane
- Statutory Address:
- 8 Lumber Lane, Paulerspury, Towcester, NN12 7ND
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00478/32
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190294
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Nov-2014
- List Entry Name:
- 8 Lumber Lane
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8 Lumber Lane, Paulerspury, Towcester, NN12 7ND
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:
- 8 Lumber Lane, Paulerspury, Towcester, NN12 7ND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Paulerspury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP7198845440
Summary
A cottage of the early C18 with C20 alterations and extensions.
Reasons for Designation
8 Lumber Lane is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reason:
* Architectural interest: it is an early C18 cottage with a significant degree of survival of original fabric, including stone walls, a fireplace with bressumer and bread oven and floor frames.
History
8 Lumber Lane, also known as Briary Cottage, dates from the early C18. In 1919 it was the home of George Leonard Edwards, a bus operator who pioneered the bus service from Paulerspury to Northampton. A photograph of Mr Edwards outside his home in 1919 shows the cottage with a thatched roof and eyebrow dormers. After this date the thatch was covered and the south and north wall raised in brick and rendered. Window openings have also been altered and the fenestration replaced. In 1977 the cottage underwent further modernisation and planning consent was granted for an extension built to the west. It was listed at Grade II in 1987.
Details
A cottage of the early C18 with C20 alterations and extensions.
MATERIALS: coursed limestone rubble and rendered brick with a corrugated asbestos covering over a thatch roof.
PLAN: 2-unit plan.
EXTERIOR: a two storey house with a two-window range and a central C20 door in a C20 gabled stone porch flanked by three-light C20 casement windows. The ground floor windows to the rear have timber lintels. There are two-light C20 casements to the first floor. The roof has a corrugated iron covering over the thatch and brick end stacks, with that to the east being a coupled square chimney, reset in the late C20. A C20 single storey brick extension with slated gable roof is attached to the west and has no historic interest.
INTERIOR: on the ground floor the C18 floor frame remains and includes a substantial chamfered bridging beam and joists. One room has an open stone fireplace with an ogee stop-chamfered cambered bressumer and a bread oven. There is some oak flooring and partitioning remaining. On the first floor, an open stone fireplace and a plank door with strap hinge remain. The roof structure comprises C20 purlins, but some C18 principal and common rafters remain with pegged and bolted collars.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234561
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Warwick, R M, Bygone Buses of Northamptonshire. No. 2: G.L. Edwards, Paulerspury, (1982)
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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