Building record 0074202000 - MANOR HOUSE, NEWTON LONGVILLE

Dimensions - Width 18m, Length 50m.
Plan Form - H shaped.
Grade II. House. C16, altered. Red brick, part with diapering in blue headers, moulded stone and brick plinth, stone quoins. C20 tiled roof. External brick chimney stacks with rectangular shafts and-stone quoins to centres of rear and N.W. side. H_plan. 2½ storeys. N.E. front has flanking gabled and projecting bays with altered C20 wooden casements in segmental heads, 3-light to right, 2-light to ground floor of left bay. Paired casements to attic, leaded to left, half leaded to right. West return wall of left bay has paired leaded casement to ground floor and 2 small openings with stone surrounds above, one blocked. Return wall of right bay has blocked windows that to ground floor with bonded stone surround. Central section has transomed 4-light C20 leaded casement to ground floor and 2 leaded windows to first floor, that to left a C16 2-light stone mullioned window with arched lights, that to right a C17 moulded cross window. Door to left in C15-early C16 4-centred moulded arch with carved spandrels and flat hoodmould. Similar door to right is C19 copy. C16 moulded stone panel with arms of New College, Oxford above left door. Rear is part rendered with 3 leaded cross windows in surrounds of chamfered brick. C19 and early C20 single storey extensions to S. ends of side wings. Interior: W. wing has C16 stone arched fireplace with carved spandrels in ground floor room to front, and C17 staircase with turned balusters, moulded string and handrail. Original hall in central section has C16 moulded cross beams and dressed stone jambs to fireplace. Barns, now part garages, are C17-early C18. Blackened brick plinths, weatherboard on timber frame, half-hipped thatch roofs. Larger barn to right is of 2 storeys and 2 bays. Left bay has stable door and window, right bay has garage doors, boarded service door next to house, small barred casement, and hayloft door above. Braced tie beam, queen struts and large curved windbraces in roof. Lower barn of one bay set back to left is similar but slightly later. RCHM II p 215 MON 2 (B7).
Incorporates materials from former priory buildings (B3).
NGR to house (B6).