Manor House

SO 90 NW BISLEY-WITH-LYPIATT THROUGHAM

5/122 Manor House

28.6.60

II

Detached house. C17, extensively altered early-mid C18; early C19 addition. Random rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey with attic; attached kitchen block to north west corner. North front: original part of house to left. Scattered fenestration in elevation altered by raising of eaves-level, addition of roughly central parapet gable and coved eaves. Central doorway with flat stone porch hood on shaped brackets and plank door; deep 2-light casement above and 2-light in gable; ground floor 3-light to left with 2-light above, all chamfered mullioned with leaded iron casements. Further single and 2-light mullioned casements to right. Three restored ridge-mounted chimneys with chamfered caps. Kitchen block projects forward from west end, ashlar chimney with chamfered cap to north gable end. Lower gabled projection has reset C13 two-light lancet in gable apex. South side: 2, 3 and 4-light mullioned casement in 4-window elevation, many restored. Off-centred doorway with flat stone porch hood. Three gabled roof dormers. Interior not inspected. Said to have had gabled C17 wing on south side, demolished in c1935 alterations. Cellars recorded as containing very early masonry; this now inaccessible. (N.M. Herbert, 'Bisley' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 4-40; and M.A. Rudd, Historical Records of Bisley with Lypiatt, 1937

Listing NGR: SO9201407938