Building record 0490300000 - MANOR HOUSE, THE GREEN, THORNBOROUGH

Dimensions - Width 14m, Length 30m.
Plan Form - Subrectangular.
Grade II. Manor house. C17, altered and extended early C18 for Benjamin Woodnorth, High Sheriff of Buckingham, restored early C20. Coursed rubble stone, dressed stone window heads, off-set brick eaves, old tile roofs. U-plan N. wing, part C17, with early C18 range to south. Two storeys and attic. N.W. gable: has stone stack with three square brick shafts, and buttress to ground floor. E. front: wing to south has three bays with leaded mullion and transom windows to left-hand bays and upper right. Right-hand bay has six panelled door in wooden doorcase of Doric columns and plain entablature with 2-light leaded casement above. Three hipped dormers with leaded casements, 3-light to outer bays, paired to centre. Lean-to at left end. Slightly projecting lower range to right, linked by half-hipped roof, has first floor band course and two bays of leaded casements, mostly 3-light with 4-light to upper left. W. front of early C18 block is similar. Doric doorcase has rusticated blocks, pilasters, entablature with triglyph frieze and segmental pediment. Interior: staircase of c.1740 with turned balusters, fluted Tuscan newel columns and open string with scroll brackets. Stair-well has C18 bolection panelling. Re-sited panelling in N.W. ground floor room. RCHM II p 296 MON 2 (B6).
House thoroughly repaired 1860 (B1).
NGR to Manor House (5O yards east of church) (B3-4).


The Manor House, 50 yards east of the church, is of two storeys, built of stone, possibly late in the 17th century and subsequently restored and altered. The roofs are tiled. The plan consists of a half H-shape block, the projections extending towards the northeast and a wing extending towards the southwest. Two chimney stacks are of late 17th century brick, one with three shafts, and the other rectangular. The N.W. wall of the garden is contemporary with the house; it is faced with stone and has a stone coping; the inner side is of red and blue bricks, partly set in a diamond pattern with blue headers. The gate-pillars are of stone with moulded stone caps, the opening is partly blocked, but the original gate-hooks remain in the pillars. Condition - Good (B3).
Manor House. C17, altered and extended early C18 for Benjamin Woodnorth, High Sheriff of Buckingham, restored early C20. Grade II (B6).

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