Description

CORSLEY CORSLEY VILLAGE ST 84 NW (north side) 7/75 Manor Farm 11.9.68 GV II* Farmhouse. Circa 1560, probably for Sir John Thynne. English bond brick, tiled roof with groups of diagonally-set brick stacks. Through passage to left of hall with lateral stack, rear wings flanking courtyard. Two-storey and attic, 5-window. Tudor-arched doorway with ribbed door to left of centre with square sundial over, two 3-light hollow-chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds and one 4-light mullioned and transomed casement to right, 4-light and 3-light mullioned casement with hoodmoulds to left. First floor has three 3-light mullioned and transomed casements to centre with 4-light mullioned casement either side. Three attic gables with 3-light mullioned casements with hoodmoulds, large lateral stack to right with offsets incorporated into gable to right. Right return has planked door inserted into cross window, 4-light mullioned and transomed casements to first, one blocked, 3-light mullioned casements to attic gables. Left return has 2-light mullioned casements to ground, first and attic floors, lean-to extension, C20 casement to left. Rear has symmetrically-placed gabled wings, the left has basement with 2- light mullioned casement, 3-light mullioned casements to other floors, wing to right has similar windows and buttress with offsets facing courtyard. Rear of main range has external stone stack to hall fireplace, blocked Tudor-arched doorway in C19 lean-to porch and mullioned and transomed casement to right. Interior not accessible at time of survey (June 1986), but said to have blocked open stone fireplace in hall to right of entrance, some wainscot panelling, staircases in both wings, kitchen formerly in east wing. House reputedly built or rebuilt for Sir John Thynne, whilst Longleat House (q.v. Horningsham) was rebuilt during 1560s. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965)

Listing NGR: ST8290546742

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