The Weir
THE WEIR, 2, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293779
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Weir
- Statutory Address:
- THE WEIR, 2, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293779
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Weir
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WEIR, 2, 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:
- THE WEIR, 2, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gayton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 70258 54584
Details
GAYTON HIGH STREET SP75SW (East side) 8/45 No.2 (The Weir) 01/12/51
II
House, formerly farmhouse. Early/mid C17. Coursed limestone rubble, ironstone dressings. Old and C20 plain-tile roof, brick end stack. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic: 2-window front range. Central false door flanked by stone buttresses disguised as gabled porch. 4-light wave-moulded stone mullion windows to ground and first floors, those to ground floor with hood moulds. Wave-moulded plinth, ironstone quoins, stone-coped gables with kneelers and one gabled roof dormer. Wing to rear left has 2- and 3-light casement windows with wood lintels and C20 glazed door with chamfered stone surround. Interior has moulded bar-stop-chamfered spine beams to ground floor and bar-stop-chamfered spine beams to first floor. Open fireplace with bar-stop-chamfered bressumer, C19 marble chimneypiece. Another fireplace with boxed bressumer. 2 stone corner fireplaces to first floor rooms of main range, both with moulded Tudor-arched heads and C19 grates. Old 2-panel doors with HL hinges. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1973, p,223).
Listing NGR: SP7025854584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234681
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 223
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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