Manor House

LEE BROCKHURST C.P. CHURCH ROAD SJ 52 NW (east side) 11/3 Manor House - - II House. Probably early C16, partly remodelled late C16 with later additions and alterations. Pebbledash concealing timber frame; plain tile roof. Original plan of 3 framed bays with 2 right bays open to roof, floored over and stack inserted late C16; stone outshut to rear. One storey and attic; C19 casement to left of entrance with C20 and C19 casements to right; raking eaves dormer directly above centre window has C19 casement. C20 six-panel door under C19 gabled wooden porch to left of centre with prominent brick ridge stack immediately to left. Interior: framing exposed to back wall: rectangular panels, 2 from cill to wall- plate, with straight tension braces; also to cross-wall between centre and right rooms, which has long straight tension braces. Late C16 deep-chamfered cross-beam ceiling with heavy joists in room to right of stack, which has partly infilled inglenook with C19 wooden fireplace and cast-iron grate. Similar ceiling in right ground-floor room. C17 panelled and plank doors throughout. Single-purlin collar and tie beam roof in 3 bays with straight windbraces; doorway cut through tie beam of second truss from left implying that ceiling is an insertion. Outshut to rear (former dairy), divided into 2 with stone-flag floor. Salop County Sites and Monuments Record: P.R.N. 17179.

Listing NGR: SJ5474826995