Manor House

SK 93 NE LONDONTHORPE & HARROWBY HIGH ROAD WITHOUT Londonthorpe 2/41 No 21 - Manor House

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House; late C17 with C19 alterations; coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. Pantile roof with raised stone coped gables, with ball finials and off centre ridge stack of brick with stone base. 2 storeys with cellars, 4 bays with off centre C19 panelled door with plain stone surround with keystone, flanked by to left 2 light and 3 light cavetto mullioned windows with cornice and to right a similar 3 light window. 3 windows above all 2 light cavetto mullioned, to eaves. Iron frame casements throughout. Above door C19 Brownlow shield and scroll in plain stone surround. To gable end facing street a single blocked C16 opening at 1st floor level and above a slate plaque, probably early C19; with paired lions, greyhound and coronet of the Brownlow arms in each corner, being a gauge for a huge water tank previously housed in the roof and which served a number of other houses in the village. Interior has inglenook fireplace with chamfered stopped beam and original salt cupboard and pot hangers.

Listing NGR: SK9536537950