Treyford Manor Farmhouse

SU 81 NW 16/100 15.6.87

TREYFORD TREYFORD VILLAGE Treyford Manor Farmhouse

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House. Late C15 or early C16; altered and extended in C18 and C20, addition 1987. Squared rubble in courses with brick quoining to angles and window jambs brick plinth to front, tile hung cladding to upper floor at rear and north end concealed timber framing. Hipped double pitched roof. Two brick ridge stacks. Two storeys and cellar. Front and rear parallel ranges. Entrance front with central doorway: C20 wooden doorcase with pilasters and pediment over. A 2-light casement to either side with a 3-light casement to left and right; a 2-light casement further left: all under brick header segmental arches. On first floor six 2-light casements. C20 metal frame casements set in wood frames with rectangular pane leadlights. Below the third first floor window from left, a flush panel framed with brick, possibly a blocked window, and another strip of quoining further right. A similar quoining strip to right of doorway above window represents the corner of the south end to the original house as refronted in the C18 and subsequently extended to the south in the same style. At rear similar 2- and 3-light C20 casements in brick quoined openings on ground floor and in tile hanging on first floor. The south bay of the rear range added in 1987: inset bay window on ground floor. Interior: within the north end of the front range partial remains of the framing of the original hall house of c.1500; a three bay open hall with a single bay at either end. In C17 a framed floor with lateral stop chamfered bridging beam and stop chamfered joists and a stack with inglenook fireplace inserted in hall with probable cross passage on the south side. The original roof removed and outer walls heightened to provide a full first floor with hipped roof, now renewed, in C18 original dowelled storey posts and panel framing in central spine wall originally the external east wall) and partly surviving end bay cross frames with a principal beam retained at the south end. Ceiling in entrance hall has exposed stop chamfered ceiling joists. Rear range retains some C17 framing. C20 staircase. In C19 converted to cottages, now one dwelling.

Listing NGR: SU8253618537