The Manor House

SE 9600-9700 REDBOURNE HIGH STREET (north-west side)

21/63 The Manor House 6.11.67 II

House. Late C18 with earlier origins. Roughly-coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings, brick stacks and attic storey in Flemish bond. Slate roof. Plan: probably originally H-shaped on plan, with single-room central range between 2-room cross wings; central section later infilled, forming double-depth plan with 3-room south front and entrance hall to left return. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays by 2 bays. South front: large 12-pane ground- floor sashes in reveals with projecting sills and stucco cambered arches. 20-pane first-floor sashes in similar surrounds. Straight joints flank central bay. 4-course brick second-floor band with ashlar dentilled cornice. 20-pane attic sashes in similar surrounds, ashlar-coped pedimented gables above. Triple-span roof with 3 large corniced axial stacks. Roofs hipped to rear. Left return forms entrance front: internal porch to left with C20 glazed door beneath segmental brick arch, 12-pane sash to right beneath channelled stucco flat arch. First floor: single 12-pane and 20- pane sashes beneath elliptical brick header arches. Second floor brick band. Interior contains late C18 open-well staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail, wavy wrought-iron balusters and clustered newel; fielded- panel window shutters to front rooms. Interior not fully investigated.

Listing NGR: SE9719300030