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No 3 The Manor House |
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No summary available. Listed building The building was listed in 1988 with listing particulars as follows. House, formerly farmhouse. C17 extended c.1840 with medieval origins. Coursed limestone rubble with limestone dressings, plain-tile roof, stone end stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Central C19 door with 4-centred chamfered stone head, carved spandrels and hood mould. 3-light chamfered stone mullion windows to ground and 1st floors except for similar 2-light window to 1st floor centre. Gables over outer bays; 1-light windows to gables with chamfered stone surrounds. Stone-coped gables with kneelers. 2-storey parallel range to rear with single-storey lean-to extensions. The building incorporates the C14 kitchen for the adjacent Hastings Manor House. Originally detached, an approximately square, 2-storey structure to centre of rear range with large end stack and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Remains of central windows survive at high level on two sides. An important and rare survival of a medieval detached domestic kitchen, part of a group with the Court Parlour (q.v.) and the Church of St. Andrew (q.v.). (C.T.P. Woodfield: The Larger Medieval Houses of Northamptonshire: 16, 1981, p194 and Fig,16b; Scheduled Ancient Monument, Northanptonshire 33 |
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includes current Manor House, Court Parlour and St Andrews Church |
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Photo taken from the west before the barnes were were converted, some are now included in The Greenyard |
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The only remaining part of the Hastings family Manor house is the Court Parlour that probably dates from c. 1320-40 which was retained as a semi public building in which the court could be held |
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