32, Manor Road

SP5004 SOUTH HINKSEY MANOR ROAD (South side) 1697-0/14/118 No 32

GV II

House. Circa early C17, possibly a remodelling of an earlier house. White-washed limestone rubble with dressed quoins and masonry at NE end. Asbestos tile roof with half-hipped ends. Stone rubble axial stack. PLAN: 3-room plan with lobby Entrance in front of axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces heating small kitchen on right [SW] and central hall. The partition between the hall and the large unheated inner room has been removed and a small closet [outside lavatory] has been partitioned off at the back. Small C20 wing at rear behind hall EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3-window north west front. C20 2 and 3-1ight casements with timber lintels. Two, gabled dormers. Doorway to right of centre with chamfered timber lintel and C20 door. End of cross-beam exposed on left. Left [N] corner is splayed and of dressed stone. Small window in :NE end wall. At rear, two gabled dormers, blocked doorway on left and C20 single-storey wing to left of centre. INTERIOR: Kitchen on right has chamfered axial beam with run-out stops and fireplace with cambered unchamfered roughly hewn bressumer and large oven to side with brick arch and C 19 iron door. Hall has chamfered axial beams with run-out stops, unchamfered joists and rebuilt fireplace; now one room with inner room on left which has a roughly chamfered cross- beam and exposed unchamfered joists. Two moulded plank doors in attic but rest of joinery is later. At the high end of the house a raised cruck truss with square-section blades halved at the apex, mortice and tenoned straight collar and trenched purlins; straight wind-braces to tie beam truss between hall and inner room ,chambers with stud partition; common-rafter couples intact, but battens renewed. Exposed wall-plates.

Listing NGR: SP5099004199