Manor Farmhouse And Attached Walls

Manor Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse, now a house, extended around 1770 to the left. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with brick window and door dressings; it features an old tile roof with stone slates to the right wing, and brick stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan and is two storeys high to the left, and two storeys with an attic to the right wing, presenting a four-window front. The windows on the ground floor have gauged brick segmental arches and brick jambs, with a six-panelled door; two are from the mid-19th century. The first floor windows on the right wing are from the mid-18th century and have moulded timber lintels. A brick plinth course and projecting storey band are visible. Two gabled dormers with 18th-century two-light casements are present. The gable wall of the right wing features similar detailing to the scattered fenestration of three mid-18th-century sashes and one attic window. The roof is gabled, with two large lateral stacks to the right and one gable end stack and one ridge stack to the left wing, the latter formerly at the gable end of the 17th-century house. Inside, there are panelled shutters and two- and six-panelled doors, some with moulded architraves. An early 18th-century bolection moulded fireplace is found in the left room (likely reset), and there is a wood bressumer and chamfered, stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops to the centre room. The right wing has cased beams. On the first floor, a plank and stud partition separates the passage, leading to an early 19th-century dog-leg staircase with a closed string, stick balusters and turned newels in the right wing. The late 17th-century roof to the right has collar trusses with cambered collars and butt purlins. The mid-18th century roof to the left also has collar trusses with butt purlins. A 18th-century wall is attached to the left, built in English garden bond brick and featuring a semi-circular arch over a decorative wrought-iron gate. A similar wall is attached to the right in Flemish bond, linked by a low brick wall, rebuilt in the late 19th century with six piers and a central iron gate. The rear of the original 17th-century wing displays chamfered timber lintels over two late 17th-century three-light wood mullioned and transomed windows, along with two late 19th-century two-light casements, one sash, one inserted door dating to circa 1980, and a blocked doorway to the late 17th-century wing. The farmhouse is a good example of a late 17th-century yeoman house, extended around 1770. It’s notable that the original front of the late 17th-century house now faces the rear.