Pitt Court Manor

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NORTH NIBLEY ST 79 NW 1/10001 Pitt Court Manor II Farmhouse, now house. C16 or earlier, much remodelled and extended in late C17. Coursed limestone rubble, roughcast to front, with pantile roof and brick stacks. 3-unit plan with end stacks and axial hall stack backing onto through passage (blocked to rear); late C17 wing to rear right built to rear of parlour and making L-plan; stair outshut at angle with rear wing. 2 storeys. 3-window front has mid C20 porch and 3-4-light windows. Right-hand gable has C17 two-light wood-mullioned stair window and a large chamfered lintel over a chamfered 2-light wood- mullioned first-floor window. Rear elevation has chamfered surround to small window to rear of hall stack. Rear wing has C19 rear lean-to with plank door and pantile roof. Interior: chamfered ogee-stopped and ovolo-moulded beams throughout. First-floor room to left has morticed soffits to cross beam and two axial beams indicating position of former closet. Timber- framed partitions to first floor on right, the right-hand first- floor room having a rare surviving example of a newel stair made of solid timber-treads. Roof: 3 C18 trusses to left of stack with tusk tenoned purlins, the service end rear wall having been rebuilt; adjoining right side of stack is an early C17/late C16 collar truss with trenched principals, and 2 bays with a cambered collar to central trusses; C17 oak-framed doorway with chamfered arched surround leads from this range into right-hand section of roof, which appears to have continued to form a cross-wing gable to front; 2 late C17 trusses with tenoned purlins and threaded ridge. The right-hand ground-floor section of the house retains an oak- framed chamfered, 2-centred doorway of late medieval type; panelled parlour of c1730-40 with dentilled cornice, panelled doors, later graffiti date of 1781 and fine overmantle painting depicting hunting scene flanked by fluted pilasters with Doric entablature; C18 surround fronts C17 fireplace with stop- chamfered bressummer.

Listing NGR: ST7487896276