Charlock Farmhouse
CHARLOCK FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371596
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Charlock Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHARLOCK FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371596
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Charlock Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARLOCK FARMHOUSE
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:
- CHARLOCK FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Abthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 66120 45075
Details
ABTHORPE BUCKNELL WOOD SP64NE 6/1 Charlock Farmhouse and 01/12/51 attached outbuildings (Formerly listed as Charlock Farmhouse and farm buildings)
- II
Farmhouse. c.1840. Coursed squared limestone, hipped slate roofs, white brick ridge and lateral stacks. 2-storey, 3-window central block with lower 2-storey, 2-window wings either side. Central double-leaf part-glazed door with panelled reveals and shallow porch of unfluted Doric columns supporting full entablature and pediment. 12-pane sash windows to ground and first floors. Those to central block have stone lintels and keyblocks; those to wings have segmental-arched heads. Central bay breaks forward and has low pedimental gable with string course at base and blank rectangular sunk panel. Plinth and storey band to central block. The symmetrical composition is completed by single-storey outbuilding wings, each with 3 blank round-headed arches with stone sills. That to left houses a 5-bay cartshed open to yard to rear on timber posts. That to right houses various outbuildings and is joined to extensive, much altered range of farm buildings, which largely encloses yard to rear. Interior: house has open-well staircase with stick balusters and ramped and wreathed handrail. Stone flagged floors. One of a number of model farms built for the 4th Duke of Grafton 1839-44. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.75; The Northamptonshire Landscape, J. Steane, 1974, p.240-1).
Listing NGR: SP6612045075
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235019
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 75
Steane, J, The Northamptonshire Landscape, (1974), 240-1
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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