Manor Farmhouse

TL 35 NE TOFT COMBERTON ROAD (North Side)

8/164 No. 15 (Manor 31. 8.6z Farmhouse)

GV II

House, formerly a farmhouse. C16 with C17 main range and late C17 and late C18 additions with C19 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered with some incised pargetted decoration, painted brick, and partly weatherboarded plinth. Plain tile roofs. Ridge stack to main range with three diagonally grouped shafts, late C17 ridge stack to crosswing rebuilt, rear gable end stack to north west. Two storeys, U-plan formed by lobby entry three unit plan with one unit to south forming crosswing, extended to west in C17 with staircase turret in angle. C16 range to north rebuilt in late C17 as service wing and attached in C19 to late C18 dairy. Staircase turret. remodelled in C19 as main entrance. Original east facing entrance recently resited. East elevation; two ground floor horizontal sliding sash windows and boarded door with two C20 casement windows to right hand. Four first floor horizontal sliding sash windows and one wooden latticed window to cheese room of dairy. Interior: large cooking hearth to service wing with baking oven recently removed, clunch hearths to two central rooms. Chamfered and ovolo-moulded ceiling beams; solid wooden staircase.

RCHM West Cambs. p209, mon. 6 VCH, Vol. V, p128

Listing NGR: TL3614756163