Description

BLAKESLEY CHURCH STREET
SP6250 (West side)
10/37 Priory Farmhouse (No.17)
01/12/51 (Formerly listed as House
opposite and South-West of
church, sometimes known as
The Priory or Glebe Farm)

GV II*

House, formerly farmhouse. C15 hall house, remodelled and subdivided
horizontally C16, with C17 alterations and additions; extensively renovated C20.
Coursed squared ironstone and coursed ironstone rubble, old plain-tile roof,
stone end stacks. Hall house originally, now 3-unit plan. 2-storey, 3-window
range. C20 door to left of centre in C20 gabled stone porch. 3-light casement
window right of centre, 4-light casements to ground floor left and right.
3-light casements to first floor left and centre, 2-light casement to first
floor right. All have timber lintels. Quoins, and stone-coped gable to left with
kneelers. Late C17 wing to rear left. Original door and window to rear. Doorway
has hollow and ogee chamfers, 4-centred head and hood mould. The window has 2
cinquefoil-headed lights, quatrefoil to head and hood mould. Another blocked
arch containing 2-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion window with hood mould.
4-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion window in right gable with hood mould.
Interior: 3-bay arch-braced collar truss roof with 2 tiers of wind-braced
purlins. Original window has C16 stained glass coat of arms in quatrefoil. C17
ogee-stop-chamfered spine beam and some stop-chamfered joists. Open fireplace
with ogee-stop-chamfered bressumer. Another open fireplace with depressed arched
chamfered bressumer. Collar truss roof to wing.
(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1973, p.107; P. Woodfield, 'The larger
medieval houses of Northamptonshire', Northamptonshire Archaeology 16, 1981,
pp.163-165).

Listing NGR: SP6265350454

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545137

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas