Building record 0059402000 - MANOR FARM, LENBOROUGH

Dimensions - Length 13m, Width 11m.
Plan Form - Square.
Manor house partly demolished in C18(?). Residence of Ingoldsbys (B1,B3).
In 1614 lease refered to as 'mansion house' of Sir Richard Ingoldsby (B13).
Grade II. Farmhouse. Late C17/early C18 with later C18 and C19 alterations. Coursed squared limestone, plain-tile roof, brick end stacks. Probably V-plan originally. 2-storey, 5-window range. Main front faces garden to south and has 6-panel central door approached by 3 stone steps and with overlight and flat-arched head. 24-pane sash windows to ground and 1st floors with stone sills and flat-arched heads. One window to 1st floor right of centre is blocked. Sashes are all of same size and have small panes. Four 2-light cellar windows with flat-arched heads on wave-moulded plinth. Quoins and hollow-chamfered stone eaves 2-storey wings to rear left and right of coursed squared limestone with plain-tile roofs. Narrow space between wings has been covered. This link has lean-to slate roof and central back door to yard with flat-arched head. Wings have later casement and sash windows with brick jambs and segmental-arched brick heads. Gables of main range and wings are of thin red bricks in Flemish bond; flues of end stacks are in similar brick. Later brick stacks to gable ends of wings. Main range has 2 gabled dormer windows to rear. INTERIOR has plain C18 staircase. Left gable formerly had datestone said to have been inscribed 1772 (B9).
Manor Farm, once several conjoined cottages, now a single house. Possibly once part of a larger stone building (cites massive floor joists and cellar); current flimsy roof possibly a later replacement? (B10).