Description

SK 67 SW CARBURTON PIPER LANE (West side)

9/6 Manor House (Formerly listed 30.11.66 as Manor Farm- house)

G.V. II

Farmhouse. Late C17 with C18, C19 and C20 alterations. Squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, slate roofs with raised stone coped gables and kneelers. 4 pairs of stacks, 2 gable and 2 ridge. Front has 2 gable and 2 ridge stacks, the latter has 3 diagonally set shafts. 2 storey, 3 bay front with timber eaves board, central half glazed door with early C19 plastered wooden surround supporting a narrow moulded hood, flanked by single C20 glazing bar casements set in C19 openings with facetted lintels. To first floor are 3 glazing bar casements in C17 double chamfered surrounds with cornices. In the right hand gable is a C20 window in a C17 moulded stone architrave with pulvinated frieze and cornice; the original window would have had 2 lights. To rear is a 2 storey 4 bay front arranged 2:1:1 with the third bay being deeply recessed and separately gabled with a garret. Original Cl7 central chamfered stone surround for doorway now blocked and superseded by a C20 entrance porch. To left are 2 glazing bar sashes and to the right one similar. Ground floor windows retain their C17 stone surrounds with moulded cornices. To first floor above the earlier doorway a C17 window surround and cornice is visible, superseded by an off centre glazing bar sash with a small C20 light to the right. To the left are 2 early C18 glazing bar sashes occupying enlarged Cl7 stone window surrounds, the cornices of which remain. To right a single C20 glazing bar sash with C17 surround but a C20 lintel. To apex of central bay a smaller glazing bar sash in a former 2 light C17 window: the upper stool for a mullion remains. Interior retains one fireplace with pulvinated frieze and dentillated cornice. Early C19 niche in the right hand room, moulded cornices throughout and high beamed ceilings.

Listing NGR: SK6115573301

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)