The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. House.

The Manor House

WRENN ID
weathered-pavement-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Country
England
Date first listed
2 October 1951
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manor House is a house dating from the early 17th century, constructed of brick in English bond and covered with pantiles. It has an L-shaped plan, consisting of three bays, two storeys, an attic, and a cellar, with a later wing added to the rear left. The principal range is located to the northeast and features three bays, two storeys, and an attic. It has clasping polygonal angle turrets with embattled caps, although the left turret has been rebuilt. The house has high crow-stepped gable parapets and a sawtooth brick cornice with quarter circle moulding. The windows are three-light casements with transoms and 19th-century frames, topped with squared wooden hood moulds.

There is a central 19th-century porch with pantiles and a crow-stepped gable parapet, rusticated quoins, shaped brick kneelers, and a basket arch. The wide four-panelled door is part-glazed, set within a 19th-century frame, and features a fanlight. The returns have similar openings on the ground and first floors, and there is a three-light attic window with a square wooden hood mould, while the right return has a blocked basement window.

At the rear, the left side has a polygonal angle buttress and cornice similar to the principal facade. There is a shallow part-external stack, now capped, at the centre and an inserted 19th-century cross window to the stair on the right. The right side of the rear features a forward wing that is two bays wide and deep, dating from the mid-19th century, with an external stack, also capped, on the left return and a crow-stepped gable.

Inside, there is a cellar below the right cell, and the right cell has a fireplace with reset parts of the fire surround made of rendered moulded brick. The left cell features a quarter moulding on the tie beam and a fireplace in the centre of the rear wall. There is a 19th-century open string stair leading to the central cell, which has a curved oak rail, newel, and stick balusters. The first floor has only thin partitions, and there is a stair to the attic located behind the front range to the left, within the former large stack. The attic has a two-tier roof supported by staggered 14cm purlins, two of which have lamb's tongue chamfer stops, and there are no partitions. The ground floor of the rear wing features canted tie beams.

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