Building record 1234900000 - SHEEPCOTE MANOR

Grade II. 1914 country house built for G Aird. Inscribed G A 1914. Red brick and timber- frame neo C16 style with steep old tile roofs and tall modelled brick stacks. 2 storeys, L plan. Garden front has 3 large jettied timber-framed gables with herringbone brick infill and oak mullioned windows. All windows leaded. Ornamental downpipes and gutter across centre at 1st floor level. Ground floor centre has 3 French windows each with brick arched heads carrying upper mullion with top lights each side. To each side a 3 sided brick bay with brick mullions and transomes to windows. Entrance front has door under large jettied gable at north end, 2 storey range with upper floor tile-hanging to left and brick stair tower in angle to rear range, which has 3 hipped dormers with brick surrounds and a 2½ storey projecting end gable, tile-hung in upper floors. Interiors: largely neo c1700, stair with heavy moulded rail and turned balusters. In a room by front door a small ceiling with crude decorative plaster, possibly original early C17 (B1).