The Old Manor House

TL 0875 BRINGTON AND MOLESWORTH BRINGTON

21/6 The Old Manor House 9.3.73 GV II*

House formerly a farmhouse. Mid C16 incorporating an earlier timber-framed building with C17, C18 and C19 alterations and additions. Timber-framed with plastered infill and later brick nogging, red brick painted, and dressed limestone and limestone rubble. Thatched roofs. Two storeys, with attic and cellar. L-plan, main east-west range with jettied attic floor, of three nearly equal timber-framed bays, extended in late C17 or C18 to east by one bay and joined to earlier building to south forming a south wing also extended to south by large gable end stack; lean to and cellar added in C18 to north-west, (other lean tos to north now demolished). West elevation: Gable to main range with exposed close-studded timber-frame and with ogee braces, jetty to attic floor formerly with jetty brackets, timber-frame at ground floor partly removed for recessed porch with panelled door to right hand, red brick outshut to left hand, internal stack and main stack to rear; south wing with exposed timber-frame showing clearly the different building periods with red brick gable end stack. Fenestration; two ground floor canted hung sash bay windows, one small fixed light window, and two sixteen-paned hung sash windows similar to two first floor windows with one nine-paned hung sash window; one six-paned hung sash window. Interior: Main range, original plan of two bay hall and hall chamber with single bay rooms at each floor level to west; the large limestone chimney stack (qv Springhill Farmhouse, Molesworth dated 1629) is possibly an insertion. Stop-chamfered ceiling beams (qv The Gables and Yew Tree Cottage, Brington), with similar detail to posts of central truss of hall with cambered tie beam and cranked braces; roof with wind braces to each bay and braced collar beams to side purlins at each truss with yokes and ridge piece; plaster torched between rafters of light scantling. Main early C17 hearth of dressed limestone with plain chamfered quoins and mantel beam, inglenook with pointed arched head, niche, and inserted baking oven; hearth to south wing with mantel beam.

Mercer, E English Vernacular Houses RCHM

Listing NGR: TL0847375989