South Anston Manor House

NORTH AND SOUTH ANSTON SHEFFIELD ROAD SK58SW (south side, off), 5/71 South Anston Manor 29.7.66 House

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Manorial farmhouse. Early C17, restored c1976. Coursed, squared limestone rubble, C20 cement-tile and pantile roof. L-shaped plan. 2 storeys with attics, 4 windows to 1st floor. Chamfered plinth, large quoins. 2-storey gabled porch to bay 3 has wide chamfered, quoined opening with dripstone, C17 cross-boarded door within has moulded strips, contemporary hinges and latch; double-chamfered mullioned and transomed window with dripstone over. Similar 4-light windows to each floor on left, ground-floor dripstones only. End bay on right has blocked 3-light cellar window , blind ground-floor, 4-light transomed 1st-floor window. External stone steps added in front of large external end stack on left gable, several offsets beneath rebuilt shaft. Shaped kneelers and roll-moulded gable copings; brick end stack on right; corniced ashlar plinth to brick-shafted ridge stack on left. Rear: much-restored openings with chamfered door to main range flanked by 4-light mullioned windows, ground-floor dripstones. Rear of wing on left has inserted French window on right of projecting end stack, single- light attic windows, rebuilt brick shaft to stack. Right return: blocked 4- light window in plinth of main range; original 3-light window to ground floor (mullions removed); cross-window to 1st floor; single-light attic windows with dripstones. Wing on right: 4-light windows on each floor. Left return: 1st- floor doorway on right of stack, attic windows as right return. Interior: chamfered transverse beams to ground floor. 2-leaf cross-boarded C17 door at foot of stair in wing; some original stud partition adjacent. Collared principal-rafter trusses and no ridge. Rear wing: pattern-book king-post trusses with date '1846' inscribed.

Listing NGR: SK5188483618