Manor House

GOATHLAND GOATHLAND VILLAGE NZ824005 20/96 Manor House 6.10.69 GV II Farmhouse, now private house. Mid C18 rebuilding of earlier house, with C19 extensions and C20 alteration. Rubble sandstone with dressed sandstone front; red and blue pantile roof. 2-storey, 3-window front with lower 2-storey, 1-window wing at right and 2-storey, 1-bay extension at left. Centre left part-glazed door with 2-light window at right and 3-light windows at each end of main front, all with bordered tooled lintels. First floor windows of 3 lights with timber lintels. All windows are casements. Similar windows in wing and no openings in extension. Coped gables and rounded kneelers. End and rebuilt right- of-centre stacks to main roof; right end stack to wing. Rear. One quoined, double-chamfered window opening survives in original part of outshut. Left return. Altered left end originally contained. cartshed and stable, which comprised part of the buildings forming the farmyard (q.v.) behind house. Interior. Three massive chamfer-stopped beams survive. Room to right of entrance contains heck and window reveal of raised and fielded panelling. Room in wing has panelled cupboard door on butterfly hinges and original plain stone fireplace and bread oven. In room to left of entrance carved datestone found in the garden reset in C20 fireplace. Stone carved: P 1668 T M

Listing NGR: NZ8261600701