Building record 0493201000 - SWANBOURNE MANOR HOUSE

Dimensions - Length 19m, Width 11m.
Plan Form - L Shaped.
Formerly much larger. Unoccuoied many years [1872](B1).
Said to have been built by Fortescues of Salden (B2).
2 storeys, attic & small cellar. Ashlar. Later C16. Plan originally rectangular with central porch wing in front. N of porch pulled down; modern SW wing added (full description & illustration) (B3).
At NGR (B5).
Grade II. Home for the elderly. C16-C17, much restored early C20. New doorway dated 1927. Dressed rubble stone with restored ashlar plinth and first floor string course. Old tile roof, stone coped gables and kneelers. Small brick chimney with moulded stone cap behind gable of second bay. 2 storeys, basement, attic, E. front of 5 bays. Rebuilt 3-light stone mullion windows, those to ground floor with transoms, all with leaded lights. Second bay has gable with attic window. Fourth bay has 3-storey gabled projection, formerly porch, with C20 2-light wooden casement in blocked doorway with restored and rendered 4-centred head. Door between bays 2 and 3 has similar head. Third bay has 2-light basement window. S. front is double gabled, the left range being a C19 extension with leaded cross casements. Interior has fragments of timber framing, probably not in situ, and 2 C17 panelled doors. One stone fireplace has moulded 4-centred arch and later surround with mantel-shelf on reeded pilasters. RCHM II p.291 Mon. 11 (B4).