Manor Farm House

TL 1279 HAMERTON HAMERTON

16/58 Manor Farm House 21.7.51 II

Farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17 with early C19 modifications. Local red brick, moulded and rubbed brick. C20 plain tiled roofs. Two storeys and attic main east-west range with centre two storey porch; two storey and single storey range to rear forming an L-plan with two single storey extensions to east. South elevation: Symmetrical facade with original central two storey gabled porched. entrance with segmental arched opening and ogee-moulded brick jambs, (inner doorway sealed for C19 staircase, main entrance resite to west) blocked window above archway. Two ground floor five-light wooden casement windows with wooden boarded round arch above central lights and with brick relieving arch. Two first floor five-light windows. Brick plinth, moulded brick band between floors and sawtooth brick eaves cornice. (Cornice and moulded brick band detail continued in rear elevations). Moulded gable parapet corbels formerly to gable parapets removed c.1965. Square planned central ridge stack with sawtooth brick cornice, arabesque and geometric patterned moulded bricks to frieze, and four cylindrical stacks. Interior: Original plan complete with slight modification, including a passage way at ground floor, resiting of staircase to main range from original position to north of stack. Rear staircase in outshut rebuilt with reduced symmetrical turned balusters. Sealed hearths to main range, kitchen hearth, originally with baking oven, and bakehouse and brewhouse hearths intact with original mantel beams. Stop-chamfered ceiling beams. Raised-and fielded-panelled doors and other early C19 details. The rear door facing east is said to have been the entrance used to the manor court room.

RCHM: Huntingdonshire p128, plate 74 VCH: Huntingdonshire p66

Listing NGR: TL1336579693