Manor House

SKEEBY RICHMOND ROAD NZ 20 SW (north side)

5/125 No 43 (Manor House) (formerly listed as Manor 19.12.51 House)

GV II*

House. Early-mid C17. Rubble with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 first-floor windows, T-shaped plan with rear stair turret and outshut. Rough quoins. Central board door in moulded, quoined surround with triangular head. Ground-floor windows: 2-light double-chamfered mullion windows with continuous hood-mould over windows and door. First floor: double-chamfered fire window with hood-mould; 2 pairs of 2-light double-chamfered mullion windows, each pair with continuous hood-mould. Ashlar kneelers of quarter-round section; ashlar coping to raised verges. Corniced ashlar stacks at ends, that to right with external stepped stack. To left, former barn, now extension to house, and projecting from it to left, single-storey former coach-house now with garage doors in hipped gable end, not of special interest. Rear: central stair turret rising up above eaves as full dormer, and with 2-light mullion windows with drip-moulds. To right, original roof dormer with matching window. Outshut has been added to continue building line flush with that of turret, and has matching windows, possibly re-set when outshut added. Interior: house retains all 4 original ashlar fireplaces; in ground-floor room to left, huge flat-headed surround with moulded and stop-chamfered arris, fluted frieze, cornice and side seats within fireplace cavity; in ground-floor room to right, chamfered triangular-headed surround; in both first-floor rooms chamfered triangular- headed surrounds with cornices. Ground-floor rooms have stop-chamfered internal door-frames, stop-chamfered first-floor beams and joists. Dog-leg stair in turret appears to have original treads in upper section. Roof trusses: angled principal rafters, 1 with collar removed. VCH i, p 52.

Listing NGR: NZ2002902612