Manor Farmhouse
MANOR FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040411
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040411
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aston Le Walls
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 49387 50796
Details
ASTON-LE-WALLS SP45SE 2/2 Manor Farmhouse 04/02/69 (Formerly listed as Manor House)
- II
Manor house, now farmhouse. Late C17 altered C18, incorporating C16 work. Squared coursed ironstone and limestone, slate roof. Brick stacks. Double-depth plan, 2 storeys, attic and cellar, 6 bays. Doorway in third bay from right has moulded stone frame with frieze of acanthus leaves and segmental pediment on scroll brackets. C19 half-glazed double doors with overlight. 3 sash windows with plain stone frames to left. Similar window to right. Sash window in right bay has wood lintel and side lights. Sash windows on first floor with wood lintels. Hipped roof with stack to right of centre. 2-light stone-mullioned window to cellar on right side. Medieval stone gargoyle of a monkey on left side. Irregular gabled rear elevation has doorway in third bay from left with wood lintel and 6-,panel door. C20 brick porch across 2 left bays. Blocked 2-light stone mullioned window in left bay, one-light stone framed window with square hood (also blocked) second bay from left. 3-light window to right has wood lintels. Original wood mullions and transom, and old iron casement. Windows on first floor have wood lintels and C20 casements. Interior: kitchen and adjoining room at rear have large moulded spine beams, probably early C16. Similar beam in first floor room. Plain stone doorway from hall to kitchen. Blocked pointed stone arch to right. 3 pointed stone arched (blocked) in wall of first floor corridor, each approx. one metre high. Timber stud partition in small room to right of hall. C18 staircase with turned balusters. Cellars said to have plain stone vaulting. William Plowden a colonel in King James II's guards, "rebuilt the manor house at Aston and lived there for a few years", but being a catholic he became "an obnoxious man" to the violent whigs of the neighbourhood and later "quitted Aston in disgust". By the early C19 the house had been "reduced in size and modernised". (G. Baker, Northamptonshire, 1822-30, Vol.I, p.470).
Listing NGR: SP4938750796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234273
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Baker, G T, Northamptonshire 1822-41, (), 470
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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