Bleathwood Manor

LITTLE HEREFORD CP SO 56 NE 5/37 Bleathwood Manor (formerly listed as 11.6.59 Manor Farmhouse)

GV II *

Farmhouse. Early C17 core with late C17 additions and refacing, further C18 addition, C20 alterations. Timber-framed core largely refaced with brick, sandstone rubble plinth, decorative brick shafts to stacks, tiled roofs. Irregular T-shaped plan, with earlier L-plan-house facing west and later additions to north and south ends, gable-end stacks, entrance to west front. Two storeys, attics and cellars, with single-storey addition to north, and single storey with attic to south addition. West front: raised verges, dentilled eaves cornice, main house flanked to left by single-storey extension with large 8-pane full-length window to right of ledged door, and to right by single storey and attic addition with one 2-light casement window and two 3-light casement windows with segmental heads. Main house: semi- circular shaped gable to left with single light with semi-circular headed relieving arch and 2-light window to ground floor with similar arch, gabled section to right with 2-light window in gable and 2-light window to right of projecting two-storey porch with semi-circular gable. Porch has windows to all three sides of upper storey with moulded cornice, part-glazed door to ground floor flanked by side lights with 2-light windows to sides, gabled dormer to right with 3-light casement window, small 2-light window below eaves, long 2-light window with semi-circular headed relieving arch to ground floor with 2-light window to right. To the rear is a moulded string course and similar relieving arch above the windows. Interior retains sections of late C17 panelling, C17 staircase with splat balusters. Fragments of moulded plastered panels survive in some of the upper rooms. (RCHM, Vol 3, p 67; BoE, p 236).

Listing NGR: SO5607069676