The Manor House

SU 42 NE COMPTON PLACE LANE

5/29 The Manor House 5/12/55 (formerly listed under Compton) II Manor House. Medieval origins, C17 building with late C18 refronting and wing. Timber-frame core, brick,with some stone dressings. 2 storeys, with 3 bay timber-frame building end on to road with 2 bay mid-C17 addition added to right at far end and C18 wing added to front of this with the front of this wing and the road end bay of the earliest part refronted late C18. Front 2 storey 3 bay with to left projecting wing. Doorway in centre of 3 bays, with 8-panel door and semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars in parallel reveal. Open Doric porch with fluted columns and full cornice under flat hood. 5 12-pane sashes, those on ground floor larger. Parapet with stone coping and flat roofed dormers above left 2 bays. Roof hipped to right. Left wing projects 1½ bays with on right side early C19 4-panel door with semi-circular fanlight in corner and 2 12-pane sashes, one above the other in centre. End of wing has C19 canted bay window, with reused 12-pane sash in centre and 12-pane sash above. Added parapeted front right side of wing. Roof is half-hipped. Inside late C18 interior with older features such as behind front door in C17 range wide fireplace with carved timber fire-surround dated 1652 with initials of Goldfinch family, who lived there.

Listing NGR: SU4704725669