Manor Farmhouse

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SU55SW KINGSCLERE 186-0/11/10012 NORTH OAKLEY Manor Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa early C18, altered and extended in early to mid C19 and altered at front in the late C19 or early C20. Flemish bond red brick, [extension has flared headers] and some tile-hanging. Plain clay tile roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable-end stacks. PLAN: Original house has 2-room plan with wide cross-passage hall at the centre with stair tower at the back. In circa early to mid C19 a third room and a room in a wing at the front were added forming an L-shaped plan. In circa late C19 or early C20 two 2-storey bays were built on the front of the original house with a porch in between. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 5-bay east front with gabled wing projecting on right. Original house on left with two gabled 2-storey bays with 3-light stone windows and tile-hung gables; panelled and glazed door between under flat-roof porch with thin Tuscan columns; 16-pane sash above and to right ofbay; wing to right has two small 3-light casements with leaded panes. Rear, west, 4-window range, various sashes with glazing bars, two canted bay windows with 12-pane sashes, brick platband and tall tile-hung stair tower on right with hipped roof and 12-pane sashes; gabled dormer at centre. INTERIOR: In the original early C18 house the two rooms have cyma cornices with C19 reeded ceiling borders; the south room has an C18 arched china cupboard with shaped shelves and a Victorian marble chimneypiece; hall has a chamfered axial beam without stops. Kitchen in wing has chamfered cross-beams. C18 and C19 joinery including panelled doors and window shutters and C18 dog-leg stair in stair tower, with square newels, moulded handrail and balustrade in the attic retains its wavy splat balusters. Attics ceiled, but the purlins are exposed amd the timber-flamed north end gable can be seen from the roof-space of the C19 extension.

Listing NGR: SU5283757840