Description

TL 25 NW CROXTON HIGH STREET (West Side)

5/115 The Manor House 31. 8.62

GV II

Manor house. Late C15 or early C16. Timber-frame exposed and plastered with C17 red brick plinth and walls. C19 brick casing to rear. Plain tile roofs with pantiles to rear elevations. One storey and attic hall range with jettied cross wings of two storeys. East cross wing jetty underbuilt and south gable wall and end stack rebuilt in C17 red brick. Tall C17 red brick stack to right hand of hall with four diagonal shafts. Four-panelled C19 door in cross passage position, three ground floor and four first floor casement windows of various sizes. Interior: crown-post roofs to crosswings with slender braces to collar purlins, smoke blackened side purl in roof with wide windbraces in each bay of hall, open truss with deep hollow-chamfered arched braces, roll-moulded and embattled cornice. Service doors and parlour door with four-centred arches. Inserted C17 ceiling beams to hall. Inglenook hearths relined. Two mullioned windows in crosswings, evidence for original oriel windows.

RCHM West Cambs. p69, mon.6 VCH, Vol. V, p36

Listing NGR: TL2489459698

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas