The Manor House

SE 63 NW 6/58 25.10.51

RICCALL KELFIELD ROAD (north side) The Manor House (formerly listed as The Vicarage or Old Prebendal Manor)

GV II *

Vicarage now house. 1896 inscribed above rear door incorporating tower and turret of c1480, with later alterations. Pinkish-orange narrow brick tower and turret with red brick house with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. T-shaped on plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays of which the fourth bay is occupied by 3-storey square tower and 5-stage turret with square base tapering to octagonal top. Gothic tower: massive angle buttress to left. Angle buttress with off-sets to three-quarter height to right. Off--centre entrance a late C20 glazed door with overlight. To right a C20 casement window, the whole beneath beam and C20 hood. First floor: lancet window and pair of lancets. Second floor: pair of lancet windows. A single lancet to first-floor and pair of lancets to second floor, then projecting stack. To rear of tower is stair turret: slit windows to each stage. Upper stage projects slightly with Lombard frieze. Lancet windows to alternate sides. Spirelet. Otherwise house has mainly pairs of unequally-hung 3-pane sashes with ashlar sills and with pointed lintels to ground floor. Two upper windows break cogged eaves band. Group of 4 cylindrical ridge stacks. Interior: dogleg staircase has turned balusters and Gothic newel posts. Doors have decorative panelling. Some Gothic fireplaces. Stained glass to ground floor tower window dated 1696. Stair to turret has a brick newel and triplets of brick arches fanning out under each step. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 329.

Listing NGR: SE6157038067