Building record 0020601000 - STOCK PLACE

Dimensions - Length 8m, Width 5m.
Plan Form - Rectangular.
Manor house of Bohun family (B1).
Converted to farmhouse - Stock Place (B2).
Most of house demolished 1615 (B3).
2 storey building, C16 altered, E wing of former Brudenell manor house (B5-6).
The small rectangular building described by the Royal Commission has been added to since 1911, but is otherwise substantially unaltered. It is of two full storeys, and measures 24'6" X 15'3"(7.5 X 4.7m); both floors are divided by lightly framed secondary partitions, neither of them original. The bearer
is a crudely chamfered timber without stops. It is not tenoned into the posts but rests on the lower lips of shallow trenches in their inner sides, and is clearly a replacement. The ceiling joists are laid flat. The southern stack is twentieth century. Since Stock Place was certainly the manor house, it has evidently suffered loss of status and reduction in size; the present building is in fact only a cross wing of a house of which the hall range and (probably) another cross wing have disappeared (demolished about 1630). The remaining part was probably the former buttery and chamber over, mentioned in a will of 1603. [Detailed description & analysis, documentary history, plan, sections & elevations] (B10).
Grade II. Altered C16 east wing of former Manor House mostly demolished in C17. Red brick ground floor, timber frame and rendered infill above. Tiled roof. Two storeys, 1 modern window to gable, modern porch to side, 2 small leaded first floor windows. Interior: central truss has cambered tiebeam with curved braces, and an arch braced collar. Original rafters and curved wind braces, original first floor structure. Bought [in 1683] by Edmund Waller the poet whose family had been tenants (B9).