Building record 0000302000 - MANOR FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN

Dimensions - Length 30m, Width 9m.
Grade II. House. Early C17 altered C18 and C19. Timber framed, cased in C18 red and blue brick, partly English bond, partly chequer pattern. 1st floor of front elevation painted roughcast, tile hung gables. Old tiled roof. 3 chimneys with corbelled heads, moulded brick eaves cornice. 2-storeys, moulded brick plinth, 1st floor band. Front elevation has 3 bays of C19 3-light transomed casements with segmental arched heads. The RH bays projecting forward as gabled wings, the RH one higher. Door in angle of RH wing with lean-to tiled canopy, 2-light casement above. LH elevation has 2 gables, one 3-light casement to LH of ground floor. Rear elevation has one similar window to each floor and one in centre of staircase, and 2 later windows to RH of 1st floor. Lower C19 wing on north side, brick with tiled roof. Interior Original C17 oak staircase with large turned balusters. Exposed timber framing to south wall with C17 wall paintings including Hercules and the Lion, Phedra and the Swan, and Signs of Zodiac. RCHM I p.212. MON.3 (B5).
2 STOREYS. BUILT PROB 1ST QUARTER C17, ENLARGED C18-19. PLAN ORIGINALLY L-SHAPED, WINGS PROJECTING TOWARDS S & W. TIMBER FRAMED WALLS ENCASED WITH BRICK AT DIFFERENT PERIODS. INSIDE: EARLY C17 OAK STAIRCASE (B3).
Wall paintings on plaster filling between timbers in upper part of the staircase include Hercules and the Lion, Leda and the Swan. Much restored. Illustration in VCH (B8).