The Manor House

SJ 56 SE TARPORLEY C.P. HIGH STREET

1/54 The Manor House

GV II

House. Dated 1585 on gable bressumer. Timber framed and rendered with slate roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: near symmetrical front with three gables and projecting lateral gabled wings, that at left with moulded brackets to jettied first floor and gable. This gable has decorative timber framing with ogees, quarter-circles and fleurs de lys, with a central coat of arms. The inscription to the moulded bressumer reads "Ralph Done Esquyer, the Lorde of this place, was an eade to this buldying in ever case. John Wytter 1586. The beam below the first floor (C19 casement window reads "Feneys quoth Jhon Newsome hathe kept hys promes just, In buldying of thys house in August, anno 1585." Similar jettied first floor and gable to right hand side all rendered. C19 two, three and four-light windows to west with plain bargeboards and posts to gables. Rear: extensive C19 additions including cheeseroom at left and lean-to to centre. Interior: Small framing to ground and first floor walls with some wattle and daub infill. C19 spinal corridor. Chamfered and end-stopped ceiling beams to ground floor rooms and Queen post trusses to first floor. The house was built for Ralph Done of Flaxyards, Tarporley. Source: G Ormerod - History of the County Palatine and City of Chester 1882.

Listing NGR: SJ5542962487