Haighton Manor

SD 53 SE HAIGHTON HAIGHTON GREEN LANE

8/93 Haighton Manor (formerly listed as "Haighton House") 11.11.1966 II

Small manor house, now restaurant, said to be dated 1657; altered. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, slate roof with stone gable copings at the front. E-plan: 3-bay hall range with central porch, projecting wings. Two and 2½ storeys; symmetrical 3-gable facade; chamfered plinth, continuous drip-course carried round the whole facade; 2-storey gabled porch has outer doorway with large lintel undercut to make a simplified Tudor arch, a rectangular panel in the face (now blank), a similarly-shaped inner doorway, a small peep-window in the left side wall, a 4-light double-chamfered stone mullion window at 1st floor and similar 3-light windows in each side, both blocked, a drip-band carried round over all these. Left and right of the porch, and in the gable of the right wing, are similar mullioned windows: 3 lights on each floor to the left (the lower lengthened and with altered mullions), 5 lights at ground floor to the right and 6 above, 5 lights on each floor of the wing with a blocked 3-light attic window above: the upper windows have hoodmoulds. Right return wall of right wing has a large external chimney stack, altered openings. Gable of left wing has an inserted doorway with rectangular fanlight near the right hand side, 12-pane sash above this, a Venetian window on each floor, with glazing bars, and a blocked round-headed attic window (these 3 with keystones); left return wall has a small 2-light window on each floor. Modern additions cover the whole of the rear. In the angles of the wings are rainwater heads lettered H . Interior: much altered, but pitch-pine chamfered beams with run- H M 1772 out stops, carried on stone corbels, may imitate originals.

Listing NGR: SD5676134947