Description

CLOPTON MANOR ROAD TM 25 SW (East side) 8/24 Manor House 17/7/71 - II

House. C16. Timber-framed with colourwashed render and brick with a plaintile roof, originally thatched. Two storeys. Entrance front: close studded walling with arched braces. C20 door at right with a 2-light window to right of that, all the fenestration on this front being of C20 date. To left of this is a 4-light window with 4-centered heads to the lights and to the far left is a 3-light window. The first floor has a 3- light window at left, a 4-light window at centre with 4-centered heads to the lights and a 2-light window at far right. Deep plinth of Flemish bond brick with 2 off-sets. Save for the first floor window at far left all the fenestration has been heavily restored in the C20 with diamond-section mullions. The ground and first floor 4-light windows are divided by a deep moulded transom which may have been brought from elsewhere. To the ridge at left is a stack of 2 flues. The right hand gable end has brick walling to the ground floor with a 5-light C20 casement at right. The first floor has a 4-light casement with diamond-shaped mullions and a single light to the attic. The left hand gable end is of brick and has a 4-light ground floor window and 3 and 2-light windows to the first and attic floors. Outshut to left of this with a stable door. Rear: lean-to outshut at right with a 3-light and a single-light window and at left of this a projecting gabled porch with C20 arched door. In the re-entrant angle at right is a 5-light window with moulded mullions and to the first floor above this a 2- light long window.

Interior: Not inspected at the time of resurvey (1987). The description of 1971 records it as having an inserted floor of c.1600 to the hall, a screen passage with a pair of 4-centered door heads, a cross-wall with curved braces, further exposed timber elsewhere and fireplaces with 4- centered heads.

Listing NGR: TM2224753668

External Links

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