Mantley House

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SO 72 NW 3/170

NEWENT ROSS ROAD (north side) Mantley House

GV II

Farmhouse: 1761, 1776 (datestones). Flemish-bond brickwork, rusticated quoins to front (1776), random rubble sides and back, larger stone quoins: 1761 wing similar stone; tiled roofs. L-plan, each wing three windows wide, one room deep, stair turret on rear main part; two storeys and attics.

Main block, entrance front, stone plinth: front door left of centre, six-panel, top two glazed, rest fielded, flat head, V-jointed stone voussoirs, horizontal kneeler each end, flat, projecting hood. To left three-light mullion and transom window, stone sill, cambered stone voussoirs over, higher keystone, horizontal kneelers each end. To right similar window, position second covered by a C20 conservatory. First floor three similar windows, datestone over front door. Brick-on-edge dentil eaves: hipped roof. Three gabled dormers, two-light casement windows. Left return stone base to brick chimney, carries sundial, dated 1777, restored 1894. Similar chimney on ridge between second and third windows. Right return, first part covered by conservatory to both floors: to right two two-light casement windows, flat head, no lintel: between double boarded door. Above two similar windows. Right return stone steps up to door: three-light casement above, datestone in top of gable. Brick chimney on ridge, house end of wing. Angle between two wings behind filled by lower building.

Interior not inspected.

Forms unusually complete group with contemporary or older farm buildings (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO7149626112