The Manor House

TRING RURAL LITTLE TRING ROAD SP 91 SW (East side) Little Tring 4/131 The Manor House 30.11.66 GV II House and barn attached, now one house. Both buildings C16. Central chimney and inserted floor to hall C17, low W extension C20. Timber frame on stucco sill, painted brick infill on N but painted brick casing at rear (S). Dark weatherboarded timber framed barn. Steep old red tile roof. 2 storeys, 6 windows long, house facing N with 2 structural bays to each side of a narrow chimney bay with gabled stair turret to S of stack and C20 porch on S. Single storey bow-ended hipped W end extension beyond large external W gable chimney. Casement windows with lattice leaded glazing. Interior has exposed frame with jowled posts, straight braces, clasped-purlin roof, roughly squared axial joists in E bay, squared axial beam and joists in next bay to W (on E of chimney), numbered chamfered and stopped joists, on axial beam over hall to W of chimney, and S side door in full height partition on W end of hall with parlour bay (now a kitchen) beyond. Barn has heavy jowled posts, clasped-purlin roof, heavy curved inclined queen-posts (without collars) to trusses, straight wind braces, and straight butted scarf joint in wallplate. House occupies N end of barn with stables in S end and gabled projection to E.

Listing NGR: SP9169112951