Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1962. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- standing-truss-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1962
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a building that originally served as a manor house and later became a farm, now functioning as a house. It dates from the 17th century and early 19th century. The structure is built of sarsen stone with limestone dressings and features a slate roof. The building has an 'L' plan, with a front block that consists of three bays and a central stair hall, along with a service wing at the rear accessed through a passage behind the left parlour.
In the early 19th century, the re-entrant angle was squared off and reroofed with a parallel ridge. The elevation is two storeys high with three bays, featuring limestone quoins, a water sill, and string and drip moulding above the windows. The central entrance has a half-glazed door set beneath an anse-de-panier arch, which is surrounded by bolection mouldings with capitals and draped shields in the arch spandrels, as well as a large dropped keystone. Above the entrance is a pulvinated frieze and a broken pediment that encloses a small urn. A datestone reading "S / M. E / 1677" is present, likely referring to Michael Smith and his wife, and is adorned with volutes. There are blind oval keyed oculi on either side of the door.
The windows are from the early 19th century, with sixteen-pane sashes on the ground floor and twelve-pane sashes on the upper floor, replacing the original rebated ovolo cross windows, which still exist on both floors of the right gable return. The eaves are decorated with modillions, and the roof is hipped.
The rear wing on the left, added in the early 19th century, is made of brick, consists of two bays, and is two storeys tall. There is also a single-storey extension beyond the through passage that contains service rooms. Inside, there is an early 19th-century stair and doors, along with two 17th-century eared architraves on the doors at the first floor level. Some windows have scratched graffiti with the names of William (Smith) and Barbara Hay, dated 1720.
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