Manor Farmhouse

SP 72 SE PITCHCOTT

2/39 Manor Farmhouse

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• II

House. N.E. wing is dated 1657 on plaque but has been altered and extended to S.W. C18 and later. Render over stone and brick, old tile roofs. Irregular L-plan. N.E. wing has flanking chimneys of thin brick, each having 2 square shafts set diagonally with moulded caps and bases. 2 storeys, attic and cellars, 3 bays. Plinth. Central bay gabled with flanking battered buttresses. Left bay is blank; centre bay has barred and glazed double doors in sash window to first floor and small single wooden casement to attic. Painted date plaque below upper window has rendered brick frame of tapering shafts, pediment and moulded base. Right bay has 3-light transomed wooden casement to ground floor, and C20 sash window above. Sash windows to left gable and rear. S.W. wing has rebuilt brick chimney to gable, and is also of 2 storeys with attic and cellar. 2 bays of irregular sash windows, barred wooden window to cellar, paired barred wooden casement in gabled dormer. Half-glazed door in C20 half-timbered porch in angle with N.E. wing. Lower 2-storey extension of 2 bays to S.W. Lower wing at right-angles to rear (N.W.) was formerly cow-sheds, incorporated into house C20. RCHM II p.236 Mon. 2.

Listing NGR: SP7768120321