The Manor House

TA 17 NW HUNMANBY SHEEP DYKE LANE (north-east side)

6/64 No. 3 (The Manor House) 30.6.66

GV II

House. C17 with earlier origins; raised, extended and altered later. Coursed, squared chalk, now whitewashed; brick and stone dressings; pantile roof; stone and rebuilt brick stacks. Originally 2-cell, direct entry plan with opposed doors; rear service wing added. 2-storey and attic front with irregular fenestration, irregular quoins. C20 plank door to left in Tudor- arched doorway with chamfered, quoined jambs. C20 dormer to attic. Stepped brick eaves course. End stacks, coped gables and shaped kneelers. On left gable wall is a large, stepped, external stack of stone. Double-chamfered mullion windows to right gable end, of 4 lights to the ground and first floors, 2 lights to the attic. At left rear is a blocked fire window beside a C19 sash window which blocks the original opposed door. The rear extension has further double-chamfered mullion windows including one mullion and transom to first floor. Inside: In the room to left is an inglenook fireplace with bressumer and niches on either side, one originally forming the blocked fire-window, the other the original opening into a former bread oven. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Group Report No. 602: HUNMANBY; Old Manor House.

Listing NGR: TA1018277489