Manor House

NORMANBY HIGH STREET, north side. NZ 51NW 6/23 Manor House. 22.6.67 - II*

Manor house, c.1716; now offices. Hammer-dressed sandstone with chamfered quoin strips at angles. Renewed clay pantile roofs. 2 storeys and attic, 5 bays to ground and first floors, 3-bay attic. Moulded plinth broken by segment-headed doorway with renewed 4-panel double doors in cable-moulded surround with grotesque keystone; doorcase of panelled ornamented pilasters under pulvinated frieze and broken segmental pediment. Segment-headed ground and first-floor windows have architraves with small grotesque keystones and moulded sills. Square attic windows have flat keyed surrounds. All windows renewed sashes with glazing bars. Heavily-moulded cornice below attic storey, and narrow corniced parapet coping. 2-span hipped roof. 4 corniced end stacks. Rear central round-headed fixed stair window with renewed glazing bars, flat keyed surround and moulded imposts. Chamfered doorway at left. Renovated interior has early C18 painted panelling in room on ground floor right: raised and fielded panels above dado rail, modillioned and dentilled ceiling cornice, reeded and fluted Ionic pilasters flanking missing chimney-piece; renewed 2-panel door in eared and shouldered architrave under enriched pulvinated frieze and cornice. Kingpost roof trusses with through purlins. Late C20 single-storey extensions flanking front are not of special interest. Formerly known as Normanby House.

Listing NGR: NZ5447518295