Description

WATERGALL SP45NW Manor Farmhouse 6/131 (Formerly listed as 07/01/51 Watergall Manor House)

II

Farmhouse. Rear wing possibly late C17: front range 1711. Mid/late C19, partial refronting, alterations and additions. Front range of Flemish bond red brick with rusticated limestone quoins on left. Left wing to rear of regular coursed ironstone. Rear wall of wing to yard and right wing of red brick. C20 tile roof; brick end stacks. L-plan, extended to U-plan with wings to rear. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Central open-fronted porch has clasping buttresses rising above roof and coped gable parapet between. Date inscribed in gable. Brick arch. sides have round-arched windows. Flush 6-panelled door has overlight with decorative glazing. To left C19/C20 French window inserted into 2 blocked windows with gauged brick flat arches and keystones. 3-light casement to right inserted in reduced opening below gauged brick flat arch. First floor windows are positioned very high above. 2-light C19 casements with glazing bars. Painted wood lintels throughout. Right return side has single-light windows. Lower 2-window stone range has plinth. Ground floor has 3-light casements with many glazing bars. Stone lintels with keyblocks and hood moulds above. First floor has 2-light cavetto-moulded mullioned windows. One-storey range to right has similar 3-light window. To yard, wing has brick dentil cornice. Irregular fenestration of C19 and C20 casements. Main range has mid C20 window inserted in blocked doorway with overlight and brick flat arch with keystone. First floor has two 2-light casements. Right wing is a 2-window range to the yard. Central plank door. 2 and 3-light casements with many glazing bars. All openings have brick segmental arches. Windows inserted above. Gable end has brick and stone external staircase to segmental arched doorway. Brick lean-to to right of main range to rear has ashlar plinth with blind or blocked window with flat arch. This may be the remains of a C18 range: the corner of the main range has alternating quoins running in the wrong direction. Interior: rear wing has ceiling beams and straight flight stairs. Front range has early C18 six-panelled door. C19 fireplaces.

Listing NGR: SP4245255714

External Links

• Wikidata Q26646493

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