Manor House Farmhouse

SE 42 NE LEDSHAM NEWFIELD LANE LS25 (east side)

8/27 Manor House Farmhouse

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Small manor house, now farmhouse. Later C17 with early addition; altered. Magnesian limestone rubble with quoins, stone slate roofs. T-shaped plan formed by 3-unit front range with rear stair turret, and rear wing added in the angle with this and subsequently extended. Two storeys with attics and cellars; plinth, dripcourses over both floors of front range; asymmetrical facade with 3 blocked cellar windows, a window in the centre of each floor of the left half, 2 windows on each floor of the right-hand half, and a doorway offset to the left of the centre; 5 steps up to a door with 6 fielded panels and an overlight with glazing bars; the windows are altered; all formerly mullioned and transomed and of 8 lights, but replaced with wooden mullions and transoms, those on the left now reduced to 6 lights. Both gables have windows similarly altered; left, 10 lights on each floor and 5 in the attic; right; 8 lights on each floor, and a 4-light stone mullion window in the attic (outer lights blocked). The rear of the front range has a 3-storey gabled stair turret with blocked cross-window and 2-light window in the side wall, altered cross-window and 2-light window in the gable wall, and the turret partly covers an extruded chimney stack to the right, next to which is an altered cross-window at ground floor and a blocked 2-light window above (with wooden lintel). The rear wing added in the other angle of the stair-turret has inter alia in its outer wall an 8-light window with flush mullions and transoms and glazing bars, and a lean-to in the angle with the main range (formerly water tank). Two chimneys at the rear wall of the main range of this part, one on the ridge of the wing.

Interior: entrance passage leading to rear staircase, to the left of this a parlour with full height C17 muntin and rail panelling on all sides and richly-carved overmantel in Renaissance style, and moulded plaster cornice (plastered beam recently replaced with steel joist); in the other 3 rooms of this part, matching panelled wainscots; doglegged staircase with closed string, slim turned balusters, and ramped handrail.

Listing NGR: SE4572829702