Manor Farmhouse And Attached Outbuildings

NEWTON SP8885 LITTLE OAKLEY 1337-0/11/199 Manor Farmhouse and attached 25/10/51 outbuildings (Formerly Listed as: LITTLE OAKLEY The Manor Farm House) GV II* Farmhouse of two C16 builds, and dated 1721. Coursed squared limestone with Collyweston stone slate roof, coped gables and moulded stone ridge and end stacks. 2 storeys. Chamfered plinth. Central porch with round-headed doorway with hood-mould, studded door. 3-light stone mullioned windows above with round-headed lights. Iron-framed gudgion-hung casement openings. Projecting wing to left has similar windows to ground and first floors, that to ground floor longer (perhaps lengthened), and originally had a gable end stack. Lean-to between porch and wing. Range to right of porch rebuilt 1721 (datestone in gable end) has 3-light square-headed hollow-chamfered stone mullioned windows, longer to ground floor. Low range of outbuildings attached to right. L-shaped wing to rear, probably earlier C16, has small one- and 2-light stone mullioned windows with 4-centred heads to lights, and a tiny reset cusped light. Interior: cross-passage plan. Ground-floor room to left of cross-passage has wide late C16 chamfered segmental fireplace now incorporating a bolection moulded chimneypiece brought C20 from Boughton House, where it may originally have been intended for the "unfinished wing". Late C16 roof survives over this part: truss arch braced to tie with queen struts to collar, wind-braced. C16 moulded stone chimneypiece recently uncovered in room above porch. Original plan obscured by later alterations.

Listing NGR: SP8917085561