The Manor House

COXWOLD VILLAGE STREET SE 5277-5377 (south side) 9/42 - The Manor House GV II

Part of larger manor house, once attached to Colville Hall (qv), now farmhouse. Early C17, probably with earlier origins and with later additions and altera- tions. Rubble sandstone, pantile roof. T-shaped plan with C18 wing added to rear. 2 storeys, with cellar at east end. South elevation: 4 first-floor win- dows. Ground floor, from left: 2-light casement window; 2-light casement window in door surround; part-glazed 4-panel door with timber trellis porch; 2-light casement window in double-chamfered door surround; large casement window; single-light double-chamfered window next to external stack of parlour fire- place. First floor: 3-light casement window; 3-light double-chamfered mullion window; two 2-light double-chamfered mullion windows. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping. Brick stacks at left end and between 2nd and 3rd first-floor windows; brick superstructure at eaves level to external stack already mentioned; ball finial to ridge of right coping. Rear, to left of wing: ground-floor single- light double-chamfered window; first-floor single-light double-chamfered window and 2-light double-chamfered mullion window. To right of wing: blocked openings including right-hand jamb of Tudor-arched doorway partly visible inside, ground-floor single-light window and part of first-floor window; ovolo-shaped kneeler and moulded coping to left. Right return: cellar window; ground-floor 2-light double-chamfered mullion window and early-C15 sash window with thick glazing bars; first-floor 3-light side-sliding sash window. Interior: in part of original north wall, masked by kitchen wing, chamfered Tudor-arched doorway and part of another which is also partly visible on outside, and ground-floor. 2-light double-chamfered mullion window; old oak board door; good beams carrying first-floor, some chamfered and of oak; in parlour at right end, early C18 fire- place with architrave, scotia frieze and early-C19 cast-iron gate.

Listing NGR: SE5322577165