Building record 0400100000 - MANOR FARM, HIGH STREET

Dimensions - Length 21m, Width 18m.
Plan Form - T shaped.
Double-roofed & gabled building; twisted chimney shafts (B1).
Manor house of chief manor of parish; converted to a farm. (Manorial history) (B3).
Grade II. House. Late C16, altered early C19. Front has C19 chequer brick to ground floor, remainder timber framed with patterned brick infill, mostly herringbone. C16 brick plinth, part moulded. Rear wing timber framed with plaster infill. Left side rebuilt C19 in red brick. Tiled roofs. Brick chimneys with square shafts set diagonally, that between left bays with 2 shafts, that in right-hand bay with 4 shafts and modillion base. Irregular T-plan with long rear wing. 2 storeys, 3 bays to front, outer bays are gabled to front, that to right projecting, both with barred tripartite sash windows to ground floor and horizontal sliding barred sashes to first floor. Centre bay has paired barred casement over 6-panelled door, half-glazed, with radiating semi-circular fanlight. Porch has arched roof and similar fanlight over double 3-panelled doors. Small 2-storey extension set back to right side is of whitewashed brick and roughcast, Room in rear wing has moulded cross beams. RCHM II p. 277-8 Mon. 7 (B6).

The Manor Farm, house and dovecote. The house was probably built in the second half of the C16th, much altered in the C18th, and is now covered with plaster and rough-cast. The plan is T-shaped. The transverse wing is at the North end of the main wing, and has two small projecting wings on the North side and a modern extension at t he West end. The dovecote, about 5 yards SW of the house, is octagonal, built of brick in Flemish bond with a diamond pattern in black headers. Above the doorway is the date 1704. Condition - Good, much altered (B2).

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