Tansor Manor And Manor Flat

Tansor Manor and the adjacent Manor Flat are a manor house with origins in the 16th century, significantly altered and extended in the 17th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. The house is constructed of squared coursed limestone with an ashlar facade, covered by Collyweston slate and lead roofs. Originally a hall with a service range to the west, it is two storeys high with an attic.

The main front has a three-window arrangement. The central window is a 4-light stone mullion window with transoms on both floors. Similar 2-light windows flank the first floor, with a 19th-century copy on the ground floor to the left. A 20th-century door is set to the right, retaining elements of a 4-centred arch within a square moulded stone surround topped with a cornice. The right corner is set back with corbels supporting the eaves. A pair of hipped-eave dormers are visible. There is a chamfered plinth and ashlar gable parapets. A rear range has an ashlar stack with a moulded stone cornice. A 3-light stone mullion window is within the right gable. A four-window range to the right is of a lower eaves level and consists of a mix of 17th, 19th and 20th-century construction. It features 19th-century 2- and 3-light stone mullion windows and early 20th-century leaded casements. Two first-floor windows have hipped-eave dormers. A straight joint to the left of centre suggests different build phases. A 19th-century one-bay extension to the left incorporates 20th-century cross casement windows set under flat stone arches. A chamfered plinth faintly reveals the rebuilding of an earlier range. A 20th-century conservatory is attached to the far left.

The rear elevation incorporates a three-storey gabled porch/stair turret, dating from the 17th century. Early 20th-century two-storey extensions to the rear feature stone mullion windows, a central doorway with a 4-centred arch and a flat lead roof, and a 19th/20th-century single-storey extension projecting to the right.

The interior’s Entrance Hall contains a 17th-century fireplace with a 4-centred arch, likely reset. An early 20th-century staircase has turned balusters. The former ground floor hall, now a Drawing Room, has a large fireplace with a 4-centred arch and a square surround. A room to the right of the main front has an open fireplace with a moulded bressumer and Delft tiles to the fireback wall. The attic contains three arched-braced trusses, featuring two tiers of butt-purlins and curved wind braces. Originally, the attic may have been open to the chamber below, although the roof structure may have been raised at some point. The structure includes stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.