Wray Barton

MORETONHAMPSTEAD SX 78 SE 5/103 Wray Barton - GV II

Manor House. Circa 1840. Stucco walls with slate roof, gabled on all sides. Rendered brick octagonal chimneys. Dressed granite detail. Victorian Tudor Gothic style. Central stairhall plan with the 2 main front rooms facing the garden, behind which is the side entrance lobby to the left leading to the central stairhall with kitchen and service rooms behind. Small room to rear left faces the entrance side. 3 storeys. 2 gables on each side originally. Asymmetrical 2-window entrance side with central doorway and slightly projecting chimney stack with weathering to the right. Windows are 12-pane sashes with hoodmoulds above. 2nd floor window in left gable is pointed lancet. Stringcourse above 2nd floor window follows line of gables. Slightly projecting granite 4-centred arched doorway with heavy roll moulding and arched hoodmould; stepped gable above. Diagonal buttresses on each corner. Garden front at the right return is symmetrical with 2 canted 3-light bay windows which originally had battlements. 1st and 2nd floor windows identical to those on entrance front. Side opposite entrance is irregular wing with granite mullion windows. Good interior with much original plasterwork and joinery which includes 6-panel doors and staircase with curved handrail and curtail step, stick balusters and carved tread ends. Hall and landings have modillion cornice. Hall has central ceiling rose. Front room left has ornate moulded cornice and ceiling band of trailing vine and grapes. Panelled shutters to bay windows of both main rooms. Front room right has cornice and ceiling band and fireplace with eared architrave. Main first floor bedroom has simple moulded cornice (as do other first floor rooms) and fireplace with eared architrave.

Listing NGR: SX7701684611