Manor Farmhouse

SU 06 NW HEDDINGTON STOCKLEY ROAD

6/138 Manor Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, mid C18 on C17 core, red brick with burnt headers and ashlar dressings. Plain tile half-hipped roof to main range with rear stack. Two storeys and attic, double fronted with irregularly-set early C19 sixteen-pane sashes, two each floor, and central 6-panel door in raised moulded surround with pediment on acanthus scrolled brackets. High moulded stone plinth, mouldings carried down each side of door and cut through for windows, flush quoins and coved stone eaves cornice. South end wall has similar plinth with mouldings carried down for ground floor 16-pane window. Dripcourse and 16-pane sash above, the lintel flanked by flush ashlar, possibly originally a continuous band, attic 2-light ovolo- moulded window. A straight joint slightly inset from junction with rear range suggests that main range brickwork post-dates that of rear range. North end has moulded plinth, broken for 8-16-8-pane canted bay. First floor 16-pane sash with flat brick head and attic 2-light bead-moulded mullion window. Gabled lower rear range has plinth continued in brick on north and south end walls, north west and south west flush quoins and 2-storey west elevation. South end 16-pane, breaking plinth and 12-pane above. West 4- window range of sashes and casements to first floor, ground floor ovolo-moulded 2-light each side, door in C20 moulded surround, matching 2-light to right, probably original door-head with inserted mullion. Ground floor north room has heavy beamed ceiling with chamfers and stops. First floor north room has C18 moulded stone fireplace with C19 grate. Six-bay roof to main range, collar trusses, the north truss possibly C17 or earlier. The house was the manor house of Heddington held from 1719 by A. Brooke. (Wiltshire buildings Record; Wiltshire Notes and Queries, 11, 1899, 270-1)

Listing NGR: SU0012366510