Manor Farmhouse With Attached Stable Range And Dovecote

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.



SU 02 NE BISHOPSTONE BISHOPSTONE VILLAGE (east side)

5/44 Manor Farmhouse with attached stable range and dovecote

GV II

Farmhouse and outbuildings. Early C19 for Wilton Estate. English bond brick, hipped tiled roof with brick stacks, Welsh slate roof to attached stables and dovecote. L-plan group. Two-storey, 3- window north front of house. Central brick porch with moulded stone cornice and corner pilasters, double doors with vertical panels, fixed windows to sides of porch, either side is 12-pane sash with wedge lintel. First floor has three 9-pane sashes with wedge lintels. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Left return has 12- pane sash to ground floor. Rear has segmental-headed sashes and tripartite sash to ground floor, casements and small sashes to first floor. Two-storey range attached to right return in flint and brick bands has slate verandah on wooden posts, planked doors and 2-light casements, right part is former stables with shuttered windows and planked doors, gabled loft door. Square 2-storey dovecote attached to west end of range has small windows and planked door, 4-brick plat band to first floor and stepped brick eaves courses to low-pitched pyramidal roof with square pyramidal louvre to apex. Typical example of a Wilton Estate farm group in this valley.

Listing NGR: SU0835026553

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1232 IOE Records taken by Peter Letcher; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Peter Letcher. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project