Little Manor

CHARLTON KINGS

SO9621SE GREENWAY LANE 630-1/30/68 (South side) 14/12/83 No.26 Little Manor (Formerly Listed as: GREENWAY LANE Little Manor)

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Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 or early C17. Probably for John Holden, with later additions and alterations including dairy wing of c1720 and probably C20 lean-to entrance porch to right, and c1920 extension to rear and interior alterations for Benjamin Gough. Timber-frame with plaster infill, some wattle and daub and some brick on limestone sill; with renewed tile roof and C20 brick chimney. EXTERIOR: one-and-a-half storeys, 3 cells. Small panels of square timber-framing with arch braces. Entrance to right a timber door. Casement windows throughout of 1, 4, 3 and 2 lights. 2 full dormers. Half-hipped roof and left ridge stack. INTERIOR: extensive exposed timber-framing. Inglenook fireplace to central hall (original kitchen) has chamfered bressumer, with crane and pothooks. Chamfered beam. Jowled posts to ground floor with tie-beam with scroll and notch stop, and a massive post to first-floor supports roof truss. Further smaller fireplace to parlour with replaced bressumer. First floor has exposed purlins and rafters; roof has been altered, tie-beams and principal rafters exposed. Extension to rear interrupts wall-plate. C17 panelled door reused in dairy chamber. Early C19 6-panelled door to parlour. HISTORICAL NOTE: reputed from deed to be standing in 1624; built on site of earlier farmhouse. Originally known as Ryeworth Farm. The name was changed to Little Manor c1920-30 by Gough. The roof was probably thatched originally. (Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin: 1992-: 2-23).

Listing NGR: SO9664021197