The Old Manor House

TL 4245 FOWLMERE HIGH STREET (West Side) 18/122 The Old Manor House 22.11.67 GV II Manor house now a farmhouse with attached range to north originally an industrial building or warehouse. Late C15 with mid C16 alterations, C17 additions and c.1700 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed and roughcast rendered. Plain tiled roofs. Two rear side stacks (one demolished recently), large stack with three diagonal shafts to left of main range, side stack to front elevation of lower range to left hand. Two storeys and two storeys and attics with cellar. The original building of open hall and cross wing to the south was further extended to the south by a C17 kitchen, and a warehouse to the north; a floor was inserted into the hall and the large stack between the hall and cross wing in the C16. The hall and warehouse and the cross wing and kitchen were reroofed under two roofs with a north-south axis in c.1700 and chimney stacks were built into the warehouse. C19 lean-to hipped porched entrance, and C20 rear outshut. Two C18 three-leaded-light windows to left hand range; three large ground floor and three first floor C20 casement windows with leaded lights. C20 boarded door. Two hipped dormer windows. Moulded eaves cornice and painted brick plinth. Interior: South room originally the kitchen with red brick hearth, plain mantel beam, baking oven and extra small hearth, exposed floor frame and timber-frame; original cross wing of two timber-framed bays with exposed substantial timber-frame with wide braces trenched and nailed across studs, and braced tie beam: triple-roll-moulded principal floor beams and cornice inserted into original hall with rebuilt C16 hearth; warehouse of tlhree timber-framed bays converted to domestic use in c.1700, the whole building divided into three tenements in C19. V.C.H. Vol. VI, p.157 R.C.H.M. Report 1950

Listing NGR: TL4205345799