Milton Malsor Manor House

SP 7355 MILTON MALSOR MALSOR LANE (North side) 9/111 Milton Malsor Manor House 03/05/68 (Formerly listed as The Manor House)

GV II

Manor house. Late C17 with late C16 origins. Coursed ironstone rubble, rendered, slate roof, brick end stacks. 3-unit plan. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Central part-glazed door in painted moulded stone surround with broken pediment. 12-pane sash windows to ground and 1st floors with eared painted stone surrounds. Plinth, moulded painted storey bands, modillion eaves, moulded wood cornice and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Full height wing to rear right and C20 extension of red brick to rear left. Interior: stone-flagged hall. Open well staircase from ground floor to attic with fine mid/late C17 acanthus roll balustrade. Drawing room has fielded panelling to eared wood chimneypiece. Open fireplace in former kitchen with cambered bressumer. Mid C18 eared wood chimneypiece upstairs with carved ornament and veined marble slips. Collar truss roof. Dates of construction said to be recorded on beam behind panelling dated 1585 with names of Luke and Mathew Mantell and 1685 and name John Dee. (Buildings of England, Northamptonshire, 1973, p307)

Listing NGR: SP7324455643