PRIORY COTTAGE AND NUMBER 27
27, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293387
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- PRIORY COTTAGE AND NUMBER 27
- Statutory Address:
- 27, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293387
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- PRIORY COTTAGE AND NUMBER 27
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- PRIORY COTTAGE, 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:
- 27, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wellingborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SP8910367958
Details
SP8967NW
11/98
23/09/50
WELLINGBOROUGH
CHURCH STREET(South side)
Priory Cottage and No.27
Formerly listed as No.27 and Church Hall (Old Grammar School)
GV
II
House, now two dwellings.Datestone 1608, with C19 additions.Squared coursed ironstone with C20 plain-tile and slate roofs.Originally probably three-unit plan.Two storeys with attic.four-window range with narrow, three-storey projecting gables to left and right. Three-light stone mullion windows and one large Two-light stone-mullion window to ground floor centre.C20 doors under wood one intels to right of each gable. Ashlar gable parapet and kneelers, central C20 roof dormer and brick stacks at ridge. C19 one bay extension to left has projecting cross wing with two C19 two-light stone-mullion windows. Rear elevation to Church Street of four-window range with sash, casement and three-light stone-mullion windows.six-panelled part-glazed door under wood lintel to left, and C20 door to right. Stack at eaves rises from irregular gable, with datestone;centre of main front has partially legible inscribed slate tablet. Interior not inspected but said to have wooden spiral stair. Originally reputed to be schoolmasters house and dormitories for adjacent Grammar School, now Church Hall (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SP8910367958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 233751
- 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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