Manor House Including Attached Barn And Stable

Manor House including Attached Barn and Stable, Ettington

A manor house, now partly divided into three separate houses, with attached barn and stable. The building dates to the 17th century with an 18th-century addition and 19th-century alterations.

The main structure is constructed of coursed dressed lias limestone, with ashlar to the front in narrow courses punctuated by wider sill and lintel courses to the first floor. Some sections employ cob. The steeply pitched roofs are of renewed tile with some slate and corrugated iron covering thatch to the right return; brick internal stacks are present throughout. The building follows a double-depth plan with cross wings.

The front elevation presents two storeys plus attic accommodation across a five-window main range. An offset plinth and ovolo-moulded string course mark the division above the ground floor, with coped gables to the ends. The entrance, positioned right of centre, features a four-centred arch in a chamfered square opening with a six-panel door of which two are glazed. The majority of windows retain leaded glazing. The ground floor to the left displays a recessed-chamfered cross-mullioned window; to the left of the entrance sits a large window with an ashlar lintel topped by a key block, containing a three-light transomed casement. A similar window to the right of the entrance contains a tripartite sash. The first floor windows comprise a cross-mullioned example at the left end with the lower mullion missing and crown glass surviving, alongside three-light and two-light small-paned casements and a tripartite sash, all beneath a lintel course. A gabled dormer left of centre contains a two-light small-paned casement. The rear ridge stack displays two diagonal shafts.

The left wing features an external stack truncated to first-floor level with brick finishing and tile capping. A small chamfered light sits to the left of the stack, with three-light ovolo-mullioned windows to each floor to the left, each having a label mould running around the angle to the inner return; the ground-floor window is truncated by a blocked former entrance, while the first-floor window sits above another three-light window. The right wing contains a ground-floor window with timber lintel over a three-light transomed casement and a first-floor five-light ovolo-mullioned window with label mould; a stack stands to the left of the ridge.

The left return includes a gable at its left end with windows and three entrances featuring timber lintels, some stop-chamfered, with two-light and three-light small-paned or leaded casements; a cross-axial stack and front ridge stack are positioned here. The right return displays an elliptical-headed window with tripartite sash to the left; the entrance to the right has a brick segmental head, as does the window with three-light small-paned casement above, with a gabled dormer alongside. A rear wing contains two entrances and a window under timber lintels at ground-floor level, with two windows flanking a plank loading door at first-floor level; small-paned casements are throughout; cross-axial and rear ridge stacks complete this elevation.

The attached barn to the right features a slate roof with a threshing floor entrance at its right end fitted with 20th-century timber infill, doors, and a small-paned window; glazed ventilation slots and a 20th-century skylight pierce the envelope; the roof trusses have been renewed. The stable to the right end presents a coursed rubble front wall with cob on a stone plinth to the return and rear; a corrugated iron covering protects a thatch roof; a stable door with overlight provides access.

The rear range now forms three houses arranged as two storeys with attic over a seven-window range. Three entrances and varied casement windows are present; a dormer and front ridge stack punctuate the roofline; a barn is attached to the left end.

The interior has not been inspected.