Manor House

BELLERBY LEYBURN ROAD SE 19 SW (west side) 7/5 Manor House 13.2.67 II Farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17, with early C19 alterations. Rendered rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys with added rear outshut, 4 first-floor windows. In bay 2, C19 porch with trefoil-panelled gable over chamfered pointed-arched opening, in front of part-glazed door in ashlar quoined surround with moulded chamfer. To its right, a 4-light double-chamfered mullion-and-transom window. Other windows paired sashes with glazing bars in ashlar surrounds. Cyma recta cornice. Shaped kneelers, ashlar copings. Corniced stacks at ends and between bays 3 and 4. Rear: round-arched landing window in outshut, with ashlar surround with imposts. Left return: 2-storey canted bay window with double-chamfered mullion windows to sides and 3-light mullion-and-transom window in centre, cyma recta string course and cornice, and in the gable a blocked single-light window. External stack, corniced at top. Right return: quoins. Damaged string course; 2 blocked first-floor single-light windows, that to left chamfered, that to right double-chamfered. Interior: at north end, a vast chamfered 4-centred arch kitchen fireplace with flanking bread ovens, that to left with rebated opening. C19 cornices around beamed ceilings. Probably the house described in the inventory of Thomas Metcalfe, d. 1575. VCH i, p. 258.

Listing NGR: SE1136892532