Colehurst Manor

Colehurst Manor is a timber-framed farmhouse, dating to circa 1600, that was restored in the late 19th century. It is located in Sutton upon Tern, approximately 80 metres south of a more recent house called Colehurst Manor, which is not included in this listing. The house has brick nogging, partly rendered, set within a timber frame, and a dressed red sandstone plinth. It has slate roofs.

The timber framing features close studding on the ground floor and closely-spaced studs on the first floor, both with a middle rail. There are long straight tension braces and short corner braces to the first floor, with square panels at the rear. The house is arranged in an H-plan, comprising a hall range of two framed bays and gabled cross wings of two framed bays each. It stands two storeys high, with an attic above a basement. A high, chamfered stone plinth is visible on the north side. The first floor is continuously jettied all around, supported by moulded bressumers and brackets. The gables are also jettied with moulded bressumers. There are substantial ashlar stacks: one of grey/yellow sandstone in front of the ridge, off-centre to the left, with four circular shafts; a stone ridge stack to the right-hand cross wing, also with four circular shafts; and a large external red sandstone end stack at the rear of the left-hand cross wing. Two 19th-century gabled dormers have three-light wooden casements. The windows are arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern, and are largely 19th-century two- and three-light mullioned and transomed wooden casements, featuring bracketed cills and pent tops. A half-glazed door, accompanied by a 19th-century timber-framed gabled porch, is centrally placed on the right-hand side. A 17th-century two-light double-chamfered mullioned stone basement window is recessed into the left-hand return front. The interior was not inspected, but is likely to be of interest.