The Old Manor House

SJ 5829-5929; 11/87

HODNET C.P., SCHOOL LANE (South side), The Old Manor House

(Formerly listed as Nos. 3 and 4)

10.02.59

II

Shown on O.S. map as Nos. 3 and 4. House, latterly divided. Dated 1656 and 1658; restored in the mid- to late-C19. Timber-framed with plastered infill panels. Slate roof. Framing: small square panels (four from sole plate to wall plate) with long straight tension braces. Three framed bays. One storey and attic. Brick ridge stacks off-centre to left and right. Pair of large C17 timber-framed dormers; each has jettied gable with chamfered bressumer (left- hand dated 1656) and shaped brackets, and truss with collar and V-struts; restored C17 four-light moulded wooden mullioned and transomed windows with diamond leaded lights, moulded cills, and gabled tops (the left-hand one dated:

W B 16058

2-window front; C19 four-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows with diamond-leaded lights and gabled tops. Central boarded door. Gable ends have jettied first floors with moulded bressumers and hewn brackets, and tie-beam trusses with two collars, queen struts and V-struts. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ5930929533