Manor Farmhouse

SU 17 NW BROAD HINTON BROAD TOWN ROAD 2/16 Manor Farmhouse II Farmhouse, late C17. Refacing of diaper brick with ashlar quoins over stone, and stone rear wing. Slate roofs. Two storeys and attics, 4 bays. Three bays to left symmetrical about through hall. Glazed door in early C19 Roman Doric portico. Stone string. Twelve-paned sashes, tripartite to ground floor with scalloped blind boxes. Two 6-panes segmental headed dormers. Right end bay beyond stack also has 12-paned sashes and some blocked windows. Raised coped gables and gable stacks. Third bay has mid C18 one bay rear wing stone tiled, with gable stack, and left bay has 3-bay stone rear wing with date stone to gable, oval within square initialled A / T S 17*3, and a further, lower bay with a raised gable containing reset carving, and a mounting block. Rear porch has reset stones initialled. The farmhouse is probably on the site of Hinton Vase Manor, and is reputed to incorporate stonework from the gatehouse of Sir William Wroughton's house, built c1550 and destroyed c1645. (VCH, xii. 109)

Listing NGR: SU1029576744