Manor Farmhouse

TL 5448 HILDERSHAM HIGH STREET (South East Side)

12/71 Manor Farmhouse 22.11.67

GV II

House formerly a farmhouse. C16 and earlier with C18, C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Timber-framed and rendered, painted brick. Ridge stack, rebuilt and side stack. Plain tiled roofs. Two storeys and cellar. Late C16 main range, partly demolished to south-west, with cross wing to north-east, incorporates the timber-frame of an earlier building. Cross wing with solid curved braces to exposed jetty with inserted C19 bay window. Main range extended to north-west at ground floor with entrance retained in cross passage position. C19 panelled door and patterned rectangular fanlight. One ground floor casement window to right hand and two similar first floor casement windows. Interior: exposed timber-frame shows the earlier frame in south-east and south-west walls, blocked internal doorway with roll-moulded jambs and four-centred arched head, stop-chamfered ceiling beams. Original hearth to hall partly lined, introduced C18 chimney piece to north-east room. Cellar lined in brick and flint rubble with ice closet. Foundations were exposed during renovation, and possibly survive in the bakehouse to the south-west of an earlier building. The farmhouse belonged to the Upperhall estate and may occupy the site of the manor house, one of two manors in Hildersham.

VCH Vol VI p63 RCHM Report 1951

Listing NGR: TL5469048750