The Bailiffs House

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WYE CHURCH STREET (east side) No. 36, The Bailiffs House

(Formerly listed as No. 36 (The Old Manor House))

27.11.57

GV II* House. Late C16. Red brick in English bond with tile hanging to rear wing. Plain tiled roof. Two cell lobby entry plan with rear service wing. Two storeys on plinth with kneelered parapet gable to right, and truncated stack projecting at end right, and stack at end left with octagonal bases to truncated round chimney shafts. Catslide outshot to left. Two three-light wooden casements on each floor and old boarded door to left in moulded and stop-chamfered doorway. Garage doors to left in outshot. Kneelered parapet gabled rear wing, partly tile hung.

Interior: contemporary staircase rising to attic with finialed principals. Ovolo moulded window mullions (with some C17 glass). Inglenook fireplaces. Clasped purlin and wind-brace roof. "Feare God Honour ye King Thomas Miller 1701" inscribed in attic plasterwork.

The house was not the manor house, but the Bailiff's house and used as the town's prison. It originally stood alone in the Green opposite the Church, Market cross and College. (See Wye Local History Magazine A.M. Paterson).

Listing NGR: TR0541346816