Description

PAULERSPURY HIGH STREET
SP74NW (North side)
4/46 The Hunt House
01/12/51 (Formerly listed as Stable
House)

- II

Farmhouse, now offices. c.1840. Limestone ashlar with ironstone dressings,
hipped slate roof, brick internal stacks. Double-depth plan. 3-storey, 3-window
range. Central 6-panel door with ornamental overlight in stone surround, with
Ionic pilasters supporting entablature. 16-pane sash windows throughout with
ironstone sills, jambs and flat-arched heads. Chamfered quoins and bracketed
eaves. 2-storey wing to left and C20 extension to rear. Interior has open-well
staircase from ground to second floors with stick balusters, carved tread ends
and ramped mahogany handrail. Formerly the headquarters of the Grafton Hunt and
one of a set of estate buildings erected for the Duke of Grafton. It now houses
the Henry Royce Foundation.
(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.371)

Listing NGR: SP7205145540

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26293003

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