Manor Farm House

TRING RURAL CHURCH LANE SP 81 SE (East side) Puttenham 3/125 Manor Farm House - GV II Farmhouse, now a private house. Late C16, altered in C17, brick cased in C19. Timber frame cased in buff brick. Steep tiled roofs. A long low 2-storeys house facing W set back from road. S crosswing projects only to rear and roof at W altered uniform with main range. Lean-to C17 framed staircase tower in angle with wing. Lower gabled rear extension at N of rear wall contains a service stair and dairy. Regular W front with 3 windows to each floor and door between lst and 2nd windows from S. Horizontally sliding casement windows. 3-light to 1st floor, 2 ground floor windows of 4-lights. Heavy frame to C19 plank door. Through passage to stair at rear. Single large room to N with chamfered and mason mitred crossed beams with scroll stops, tiled floor, and large N gable fireplace with seats. C15 roll-moulded post re-used as a beam in rear part of S crosswing. This has 2 rooms on the ground floor with internal chimneys on S wall. Upper floor ceiled under collars wide side-purlin roof structure. Tie-beams with queen-struts exposed inside at N gable, and heavy middle tie-beam of crosswing exposed in S bedroom. Timber frame exposed inside on both floors in rear wall, with jowled posts.

Listing NGR: SP8863314880