The Manor House

Description

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

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

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1108 IOE Records taken by Brian Jenkins; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Brian Jenkins. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project