Manor Farmhouse

STOCKTON HIGH STREET ST 93 NE (off south side) 7/139 Manor Farmhouse 11.9.68 GV II Farmhouse. Early C17, rebuilt c1700, extended mid C19, altered and extended 1960s, on site of C16 house. Dressed limestone, tiled or Welsh slate roof, C20 diagonally-set brick stacks to 2- span roof of main range. L-plan. Two-storey, 3-window north west front. 1968 2-storey stone porch set across angle between east range and C19 west wing, twin-gabled C20 wing to right with sashes and 6-panelled door, c1700 range to left has 3-light ovolo- mullioned casement to ground and first floor of west side, lintel string course, blocked mullioned casement to first floor. North side of c1700 range has two 3-light ovolo-mullioned casements to ground and first floors, string courses, 2-light mullioned casement with hoodmould to each two attic gables, lead rainwater head with P initials C M (Christopher Poticary) and date 1618, moved here from front 1960s. Left return, garden front has central glazed door with elliptical-arched head, 3-light mullioned casement with dropped sills either side, continuously moulded lintel string course, first floor has three 3-light mullioned casements with string course over. Rear of this range has central external stack with 3-light mullioned casement either side, French windows to left, single-light and two 3-light mullioned casements to first floor, 2-light mullioned casement with hoodmould to each of two attic gables, saddleback coped verges with finials, attached to left is mid C19 range with ovolo-mullioned casements and slate roof, to left is added 1960s range with sashes, rebuilt using stone from the demolished Tisbury workhouse. Interior: north east drawing room has good moulded stone square fireplace surround with strapwork frieze and moulded cornice, 6- panelled door with moulded architrave and paterae, window shutters. C19 open-well stairs with stick balusters and continuous handrail. South drawing room has moulded Tudor-arched stone fireplace surround with strapwork frieze and cornice. Attic mullioned casement on north side with date 1684 scratched on jamb. Outhouse attached to right of front, rendered front on brick plinth, banded limestone south side, probably Cl7. House altered and extended during 1960s, mid C19 alterations also partly obscured original plan of house. Said to have been built by Jerome Poticary who died 1596. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975; NMR)

Listing NGR: ST9764838360