Weedon

217. WEEDON.

(O.S. 6 in. xxviii. N.E.)

Secular

Monuments (1–7)

These buildings are all on the main road winding through the village, and are of two storeys; nearly all were built of timber and brick in the 17th century, and have been restored and partly re-built with 18th-century or modern brick. The roofs are tiled or thatched.

Main road, E. side

(1). The Wheatsheaf Inn, about ½ mile S.E. of Hardwick Church. It is of the central chimney type, built probably early in the 17th century, the date 1675 on a bracket inside the house possibly referring to repairs. The original brick filling in the walls is set in herring-bone pattern, and has been patched with plain brickwork. The roof is half-hipped, with low dormer windows. A few of the other windows have iron casements, probably of late 17th-century date, and on the S. front, set in brickwork, is the head of a window, of moulded brick and of classical design, probably part of a late 17th-century decoration. There is a square chimney of old thin bricks.

Interior:—In a room at the W. end of the house is a chamfered beam; resting at one end on a bracket carved with a heart, and the initials and date, ' E. R. 1675', but the style of work is apparently of earlier date.

Condition—Fairly good.

(2). The Manor Farm, house and barn, 500 feet S.S.E. of (1). The House has been almost completely altered. The walls are partly of stone and are thickly covered with cement. The plan is rectangular. One chimney is of rusticated brick, probably of late 17th-century date.

The Barn adjoins the house; the W. wall has been partly re-built with 18th-century brick, but has set in it a painted stone carved with the date 1649. The E. wall is of rough ashlar to within a few feet of the roof, the timber-framed upper part having herring-bone brick filling; under the cornice are four wooden brackets, with the date 1674, one figure on each bracket. The entrance archway is roughly framed, and is dated 1687. The roof is hipped, and there is a brick chimney.

Condition—Of house, good, much altered; of barn, poor.

N. side

(3). Cottage, 250 yards S.E. of (2). The upper storey is partly in the roof. At the E. and W. ends the original walls are partly hidden by chimney stacks of later date.

Condition—Fairly good.

S. side

(4). Farmhouse, W. of (3). The filling in the walls is thickly whitewashed. A few windows have old iron casements.

Condition—Poor.

W. side

(5). Cottage, at the N.E. corner of the cross-roads, about 320 yards S.E. of (1). It is of the central chimney type, with an extra room at the back. The timber-framing has been blackened.

Condition—Good.

(6). Cottage, about 200 ft. S. of (1), is possibly of mediæval origin, but has been much altered. The walls are on stone foundations; the timber-framing has heavy braced wall-posts and lighter intermediate studs and sills; the filling is of brick. In the half-hipped roof are rough dormer windows.

Condition—Fairly good.

(7). Cottage, W. of (6), is of L-shaped plan, the wings projecting towards the N. and E., built late in the 16th or early in the 17th century, but has been much altered; at the E. end is a modern addition. The N. wing has a lower storey of rough ashlar stone; the other original walls have been much patched, and are roughly plastered and whitewashed. A few of the windows have old iron casements.

Condition—Fairly good.