Manor Farmhouse

ST 92 SE EBBESBOURNE WAKE EBBESBOURNE WAKE VILLAGE (west side)

6/117 Manor Farmhouse

23.3.60

GV II

Farmhouse. Mid C17, rebuilt C18, C19. Dressed limestone, some timber-framing retained to rear, thatched roof, brick stacks. L- plan, gable end to road with through passage. Two-storey, 3- window. Central 4-panelled door with flat wooden hood on brackets, C19 three-light casement to either side. First floor has three 3-light leaded casements. Attached to right is late C18 two-storey addition with one 12-pane tripartite sash to ground and first floor, basement has segmental-headed opening, half-hipped tiled roof. Projecting mid C18 wing to left has 4-panelled door in C19 gabled porch, 4-light casement to left and 1-light to right, first floor has 2-light and 4-light leaded casements. Left return has 1-light casement and bull's eye window to first floor. Rear of wing has patio doors and 2-light and 1-light casements, outshut to right has 2-light casements and C20 dormer, C19 extension to wing has C20 casements inserted into formerly open-fronted wall. Rear of main range has C17 square-panelled timber-framing to left, retaining one blocked 3-light wooden mullioned window, wall partly rebuilt in uncoursed limestone C18, two 2-light casements to ground floor and three to first floor, to left is C18 lean-to covered passage with three 2-light leaded casements. Right return of late C18 range has blocked sashes with flat arches and keystones and 2- light casements, weatherboarded outbuilding attached to right has planked door and 3-light casement. Interior of C17 range has chamfered beams with ogee stops and open fireplace with chamfered lintel with ogee stops in room to right of front door, mid C18 wing has chamfered beams with stepped stops, C19 four-panelled doors in moulded architraves. Roof over C17 range has partly exposed trusses with kneed principals. A house of several builds; probably originally a C17 timber-framed cottage with through-passage, rebuilt in stone and refenestrated in mid C18 when the south wing was added, north range added late C18 and further refenestration of ground floor mid C19.

Listing NGR: ST9915123992