Manor House Buildings

HIGH STREET 1. 5303 (West Side) No 29 (Manor House Buildings) SP 7387 1/16 25.7.52. II* GV

1. 1738 but with earlier rear. Fine facade of red brick with stone dressings. 3 storeys, the upper storey has Roman Doric pilasters flanking centre windows. Stone quoins. Stone capped brick chimney stacks. Triglyph frieze and moulded pediment over centre. Moulded stone cornice and brick parapet with stone panels. 5 windows (with a small window over north side passage). Centre windows all with moulded stone shouldered architraves, centre 1st floor has a pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice. All other windows have segmental arches and moulded stone architraves. Ground floor altered in 1897. Central doorway with rusticated pilasters and segmental arched windows. Fine staircase with 3 fluted and turned balusters on each step. Carved and ramped handrail with scrolled ends. Panelling. C18 panelled rooms at front of house, one with enriched cornice, another with plainer cornice. Plasterwork, landing ceiling has 2 large plaster roundels with low relief moulding. Archway. Fireplaces and 6-panelled doors. Rear wing has roof with substantial purlins and possibly crucks (now clad in modern timber). Rear has 2-storey Queen Anne stone facade facing cobbled courtyard. Reset beam dated 1603. Ref.V.C.H

Listing NGR: SP7323587403