Manor House

SK 79 NE HAXEY MAIN STREET (north side) Graiselound 14/119 Manor House

GV II

Farmhouse. 1791 for George Taylor, with later alterations. Brown brick in Flemish bond. Pantile roof. Double-depth plan with 2-room, central entrance-hall south front, hall now open to ground floor left. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. 6-fielded-panel door and plain overlight in architrave beneath stucco flat arch, flanked by C19-C20 4-pane sashes in C18 flush wooden architraves with sills beneath similar arches. Similar, but shorter, first-floor sashes in similar surrounds. Stepped eaves, wooden eaves board. Double-span roof with stone-coped gables and shaped kneelers. End stacks to right (stack to front left removed). Right return, facing Graizelound Fields Road, has C20 ground-floor casement to front range, C19 six-pane ground-floor casement to rear range beneath segmental brick arch, with C20 first-floor casement above. Rainwater head on left return (formerly on right return) inscribed: GT , with reliefs of a crown, lion and head of 1791 Britannia. Interior. Original open-well closed-string staircase with corniced handrail, column-on-vase balusters with square knops, plain newel- posts, and fielded panelling below; cyma-moulded spine beam to front left, spine beam and exposed joists to kitchen, rear right. 3 low storeys to rear, with roll-moulded ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: SK7757698617