Description

BLAKESLEY CHURCH STREET SP6250 (East side) 10/34 No.12a (Walnut Farm House) 01/12/51 (Formerly listed as building, now used as stables immediately North-East of Vicarage)

GV II

House. Dated 1689, renovated C20. Coursed ironstone rubble with limestone dressings, old plain-tile roof. 2-unit plan. 2-storey, 5-window range. Central 6-panel door with timber lintel. 2-light C20 casement windows to ground and first floors with timber lintels. Gable ends have 2-light flat-faced stone mullion leaded windows with moulded sills and surrounds and circular window in gable with moulded stone surround. Similar 2-light windows to rear elevation facing churchyard. Plinth, quoins, storey band, moulded stone eaves and stone-coped gables with kneelers, all of limestone. Interior noted as having open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer and stop-chamfered spine beam. Long used as an outbuilding, formerly perhaps school house. Datestone inscribed TP/1689 has been removed from exterior and placed inside. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.107).

Listing NGR: SP6271950434

External Links

• Wikidata Q26292776

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)