Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1990. House. 1 related planning application.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-zinc-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1990
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House is a house with origins dating back to the 15th or 16th century, featuring later alterations and additions, as well as restorations from the 19th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, incorporating some 19th-century brickwork, and has red plain tiled roofs. The building has an off-centre left chimney stack connected to the central hall, a similar stack on the right crosswing, a rear external stack on the left crosswing return, a central forward stack, and a single-storey bake oven on the left extension.
The structure consists of a one-storey central hall with attics, two-storey gabled crosswings on the right and left, and a left forward wing. The crosswing gables feature 19th-century barge boards, and there are two gabled dormers on the hall and a gabled porch. The main ranges have a window arrangement of 1:2:1, with various vertically sliding sashes. The left wing, which dates back to the 15th or 16th century, was converted into a 19th-century dairy and includes a louvred window to the right of the bake oven, a horizontal sliding sash window above, a loft door on the left return, and a vertically sliding sash window on the right return.
The hall has a 19th-century gabled porch with a segmental archway and a 20th-century door. The rear walls are faced with 19th-century red brick and feature circular iron tie plates. The gables have plaster and batten decoration, and a small rear gable may have originally served as a stair turret. Much of the original frame is hidden, but heavy chamfered ceiling and bridging joists are visible in the main rooms. The roof features a simple two-armed crown post, supported by an arch-braced cambered tie beam in the left crosswing. The rear wall has a halved and bridled top plate scarf. In the kitchen, a heavy bridging joist is supported by a moulded jowled storey post, likely supporting the inserted hall ceiling. The left wing still retains its 19th-century dairy, complete with a brick floor, bake oven, and meat hooks on the ceiling beams, along with halved and bridled top plate scarf and arched wall braces.
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