The Manor House

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SD 42SE 7/62

LITTLE HOOLE, STATION ROAD, The Manor House

11.11.1966

II

House, dated 1692. Brick, with some stone quoins, stone slate roof with projecting eaves and bargeboards. Probably originally of three-bay central baffle-entry plan, with the first bay removed and cross wing added in front of third bay. C19 shooting lodge added at rear left hand corner with monopitched stair projection in re-entrant. Entry now in right-wall of cross wing. Two storeys; facade has two-storey gabled porch with stone quoins to ground floor, blocked doorway with stone lintel lettered "IS 1692", a window above it and a blocked peephole in left side wall.

Sliding-sash windows: one long Flight window left of porch at ground floor, a two-light window above it. Left return wall has window in blocked doorway at ground floor, and a blocked former doorway with wooden lintel on first floor above it. Right return wall, formed by side of wing and re-built gable-end of main block has central door (a blocked former door to the right of it), three ground floor windows and four first floor windows, all casements with segmental brick heads. Rear wall, buttressed and blind in centre, has two ground floor windows on the left, and one tall casement on the right, a small sliding sash above it; all these have segmental brick heads.

Interior: house part has inglenook with large bressummer, ovolo-moulded on the face, and slightly arched; two axial bridging beams ovolo-moulded and stopped.

Listing NGR: SD4640624118