Manfield Grange

MANFIELD VILLAGE STREET NZ 21 SW (north side) 4/54 Manfield Grange 18.3.68

GV II

House. c1805, with remnants of early-mid C18 house to left. Roughcast, Welsh slate roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Ashlar plinth. Sash windows with glazing bars and timber architraves. Hipped roof, U plan, with chimney stacks on the returns. To left: older range, now single- storey, with sash window with glazing bars and part-glazed door, ashlar coping to parapet and pineapple finial at left end. Rear: tripartite sash window to staircase. Right return: 3 bays; central leaved part-glazed doors in timber architrave and with wrought-iron trellis porch in chinoiserie style with bow-shaped lead roof; windows as front, except for blind ground- floor left opening; stack between first and second bays. Interior: ground- floor rooms to south have doors of 6 reeded panels in fluted doorcases with corner rosettes, matching door linings and window shutters, and slightly decorated ceiling cornices, the contemporary fireplaces are insertions; open-well staircase with stick balusters; room at west end has doors and shutters of 6 field panels. The main house was added on to an existing house when it became the Parsonage in 1805, a use which continued to 1905 when the new Vicarage was built on Bowling Green Lane, it too now being a private house.

Listing NGR: NZ2217413482