Manor Farmhouse

ST4615 NORTON SUB HAMDON CP GREAT STREET (South side) 9/209 Manor Farmhouse 19.4.61 GV II House at end of row, possibly C16 origins, reshaped C17 and C18. Ham stone near-ashlar; plain clay tiled roof with bands of scallop tiles and stone slate base courses, between coped gables; stone chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Hollow chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recess bays 1 to 3, no window remaining upper bay 1, all 3-light except lower bay 3 right, which is 2-light, with stepped but continuous label below; to left of bay 4 a slightly projecting chimney stack with offsets leading to single octagonal top with moulded cap: to bays 4 and 5 are reserve-chamfer mullioned windows of 3 lights, all with separate labels: to left of bay 3 a chamfered cambered-arched doorway with studded boarded door. On east gable a single-storey C19 angled bay window with flat roof. C20 extensions to rear, but also moulded square-headed doorway and some apparently C18 transitional casements, ovolo moulded, one with transomes. Interior not seen, but reported is a 3-room cross passage plan; little surviving detail except the west room which has wall panelling, moulded ceiling coving and angled corner fireplace: roof trusses have side-lapped pegged collars and in-line tenoned purlins, some evidence of re-used timbers. (VAG Report, SRO unpublished, 1976).

Listing NGR: ST4690915904