Building record 0493501000 - MANOR FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET

Dimensions - Width 12m, Length 24m.
Plan Form - L shaped.
Manor house now a farm dwelling (B1).
2 storeys & attic, built c1620, restored C18, enlarged & restored at later date. Roofs tiled. Wings extend N & W. Original hall, now dairy, in N wing. House an interesting example of early C17 brickwork. (Full description) ( B3).
Grade II+. House. Early C17, altered and extended mid-late C18. Older part is of C17 brick with diaper patterning in blue headers to part of first floor and chimneys. Plinth partly of rubble stone, brick first floor band course, finely moulded brick eaves cornice with moulded modillions carried round chimneys but partly missing. Old tile roof. L-plan with staircase projection in angle, 2 storeys. E.front has 3 gables, altered, the outer gables having off centre external C17 chimney stacks with paired shafts set diagonally on richly moulded bases. Broad central brick pilaster has flanking 3-pane sashes to ground floor and paired leaded casements to first floor. One bay of sash windows to far right, 4-pane to first floor. Windows to far left are blocked. All windows have brick voussoir heads with brick keyblocks. S. front has 2 gables, that to left shaped and stepped with off-centre external chimney stack terminating in 3 attached shafts, square flanking diagonal, on moulded bases. Flanking 3-pane sash windows. Broad brick pilaster to centre of front. Right gable has 2-storey slight projection to centre with 2 blind panels to first floor and remains of elaborate entry below; segmental arch, flanking rendered pilasters, moulded cornice and traces of segmental pediment. Flanking bays have leaded cross windows to ground floor, that to right with off-centre mullion and old glass panes, and 4-pane sashes to first floor. Similar entry to N. front, altered C19 but with more complete moulded pediment, now rendered. C18 L-plan extension to W. is of red and vitreous brick with red quoins and moulded plinth. Old tile roof. Main 2-storey block to N. has sash windows, lower block of 1½ storeys to S. has 2 bays of leaded casements with paired C19 sashes to right, C19 porch in angle. Interior: early C17 staircase with turned balusters, moulded handrail and string, panelled newels with removable ball finials and one shaped pendant. Ground and first floor entrances to staircase have panelled Doric pilasters and moulded entablatures. Moulded 2 or IS-panel doors. One room with C17 panelling. N.E. ground floor room has plaster ceiling with re-set plaster motifs of rosettes and cherub heads. Some windows with C17 glazing and catches. RCHM II p. 152-3 Mon.3 (B4).
At NGR (B5).
Buildings report dated May - Sept 1991 held at NMR (B6).