Towns End Farmhouse
TOWNS END FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371935
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Towns End Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOWNS END FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371935
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Towns End Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWNS END FARMHOUSE, MAIN 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:
- TOWNS END FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Southwick
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01612 91941
Details
SOUTHWICK MAIN STREET TL09SW (South side) 5/131 Towns End Farmhouse - II
Farmhouse. Mid C18 and early and mid C19. Squared coursed limestone with thatch roof. Originally 3 unit plan, now L-shape. 2 storeys. Main front is an irregular 3-window range of sash windows, with glazing bars, under wood lintels. Central 6-panel door under thatched hood. Ashlar gable parapet to left and ashlar end stack with moulded cornice. C19 lean-to, to right, has catslide roof. Elevation to right has an irregular 4-window range of casements, some with leaded lights, under flat stone arches. C20 doors to centre and far left, under similar heads, and blocked door to right. Rebuilt brick gable parapet to right. Rear elevation of this range has C20 windows and a rebuilt brick lateral stack. Window to first floor far right has a cheese room notice. Interior: room to left of entrance has stop-chamfered spine beam, probably reused. Wide C19 staircase between walls, late C18/early C19 chamfered spine beams in other rooms. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p143)
Listing NGR: TL0161291941
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232687
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire, (1984)
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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