Service Block Adjoining The Old Manor House To North West

SJ 5224-5324 MORETON CORBET C.P. PRESTON BROCKHURST

14/73 Service block adjoining - The Old Manor House to north-west

GV II

Probably house, now service block. Mid-C17 with c.1700 addition. Dressed yellow/grey sandstone with sandstone ashlar addition; plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic with addition of one storey and attic. South front: plinth, chamfered to rear, and 2 small gabled eaves dormers with 2- light wooden casements. Stone ridge stack off-centre to right consisting of 2 square shafts with moulded base and cornice and parapeted gable end to left with chamfered coping and integral stone end stack with moulded cornice. C17 right-hand part: 3 first-floor windows and 2 ground- floor windows; one- and 3-light double-chamfered stone mullioned windows. C18 addition to left (see straight joint): pair of 2-light double-chamfered stone mullioned windows flanking boarded door. Exposed collar and tie- beam truss in right-hand gable end with brick nogging. Interior: C17 chamfered spine beams. 5-bay roof; tie-beam trusses with 2 collars and queen struts; brick and lath and plaster infill. Pairs of purlins with wind braces.

Listing NGR: SJ5363224613