Manor Farmhouse

NORTH YORKSHIRE HARROGATE 5338 SOUTH STAINLEY WITH CAYTON MAIN STREET SE 36 SW (west side) South Stainley 2/118 Manor Farmhouse

15.3.66

GV II

House. C17 with remains of an earlier C16 house and early-mid C19. Earlier range of coursed squared gritstone to ground floor, coursed rubble above and with a pantile roof; later part of magnesian limestone with a purple slate roof. 2-storey, 3-bay earlier range, and a taller 2-storey, 2 x 2 bay addition at the east end. Earlier range: central glazed door, 4-light recessed chamfered mullion window to left; a 3-light side-sliding sash to right and two 2-light side-sliding sashes to first floor. Bulbous kneeler and gable coping to left, also tall 2-flue corniced external stack. Added block: glazed door left with 4-pane overlight; a 4-pane sash window to right and to first floor, left, a blind window to right. The openings all have flat arches and the windows have projecting stone sills. A shaped kneeler and gable coping to left, with a banded stack; a hipped roof and similar ridge stack to right. Right return has sash windows with glazing bars below flat arches. Rear: a rubble-built tunnel-vaulted undercroft, probably a cellar or dairy and roofed with tiles. Interior of earlier part: the stone walls encase 3 pairs of principal posts forming a timber house of 2 bays with a rear aisle and common rafter roof. A longitudinal ceiling beam has pyramidal chamfer stops and the stone chimney stacks at each end (the eastern stack incorporated into the later addition) are contemporary or slightly later. An important building containing extensive remains of a timber-framed house. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report Number 68 (1973).

Listing NGR: SE3054363210