Manor Farmhouse

HOVINGHAM MAIN STREET SE 6675 (east side) 8/122 Manor Farmhouse GV II House. Mid-late C17. Limestone rubble brought to course, pantile roof. Baffle entry with 2 cross wings. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with gables to each end. 6-fielded-panel door with 3-light Yorkshire sash to left and two 16-pane sashes to right. First floor: 3-light Yorkshire sash to left, blocked window over door and 16-pane sashes to right. Sprocketed eaves. Ridge stack and right end stack at eaves level. Interior: inglenook fireplace to left reception room, with massive bressumer and fire window. Right reception room has blocked inglenook with blocked former fire window visible in cupboard to right. The staircase into the roof space is a later insertion and has polygonal finials to newels. The roofs of the south wing and main range of principal trusses with paired purlins trenched into the backs of the principal rafters, and a ridge pole. The roof of the north wing is very makeshift with a rough king post to the central truss. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report Number 32.

Listing NGR: SE6678375782