Manor Farmhouse

SE 91 NE HORKSTOW MAIN STREET (east side)

7/45 Manor Farmhouse (formerly listed as The 6.11.67 Villa)

GV II

House. Late C17 with early C19 alterations to openings and interior, and late C19 bay windows. Brick, largely in English bond, colourwashed. Stucco quoins. Pantile roof. Double-depth plan: 3-room front has blocked original lobby-entry to left of centre and later entrance hall to right; 3-rooms to rear with main and back stairs. 2 storeys with attic, 3 first floor windows. Rustic doorcase has wooden panel over door with fluted keystone and arched wing motifs carved in relief, flanked by carved consoles supporting a low-pitched dentilled pediment with central floral ornament. Door with 12 panes above 2 fielded panels beneath 3-pane overlight in fielded-panel reveal. Two blocked openings to left; pair of flat roofed wooden canted bay windows to left and right ends with 4-pane sashes, Doric pilasters and entablature. C19 sashes to first floor: small blocked original window above former entrance. All openings boarded-up at time of re-survey. Cogged brick eaves cornice. Steeply-pitched roof with high brick coped and tumbled gables. Pair of original axial stacks with central vertical projecting brick ribs and stepped cornices; later external stack to left gable. Axial stack and pair of end stacks to rear. Left return: ground floor bay window with 12-pane sash, segmental-arched first floor window and single similar attic sashes to each gable, all boarded-up at time of re-survey. Interior: details largely early - mid C19. Arched alcove with fluted pilasters and keyed architrave to ground floor left; entrance hall has arched moulded dado rail and arched alcoves flanking fireplace with pilastered mantlepiece over original chamfered bressumer with broach-stops: fireplace collapsed and ruinous at time of re-survey. Open-well main staircase with balustrade largely removed (parts of ramped handrail, column newel and slender column-on-vase balusters survive). 4-fielded panel, 6-fielded-and-beaded panel, and plain doors with L-shaped hinges. An unusual and distinguished early brick building. Empty and in decay at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE9863818680