The Old Manor House
THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163240
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163240
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fowlmere
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 42053 45799
Details
TL 4245 FOWLMERE HIGH STREET (West Side) 18/122 The Old Manor House 22.11.67 GV II Manor house now a farmhouse with attached range to north originally an industrial building or warehouse. Late C15 with mid C16 alterations, C17 additions and c.1700 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed and roughcast rendered. Plain tiled roofs. Two rear side stacks (one demolished recently), large stack with three diagonal shafts to left of main range, side stack to front elevation of lower range to left hand. Two storeys and two storeys and attics with cellar. The original building of open hall and cross wing to the south was further extended to the south by a C17 kitchen, and a warehouse to the north; a floor was inserted into the hall and the large stack between the hall and cross wing in the C16. The hall and warehouse and the cross wing and kitchen were reroofed under two roofs with a north-south axis in c.1700 and chimney stacks were built into the warehouse. C19 lean-to hipped porched entrance, and C20 rear outshut. Two C18 three-leaded-light windows to left hand range; three large ground floor and three first floor C20 casement windows with leaded lights. C20 boarded door. Two hipped dormer windows. Moulded eaves cornice and painted brick plinth. Interior: South room originally the kitchen with red brick hearth, plain mantel beam, baking oven and extra small hearth, exposed floor frame and timber-frame; original cross wing of two timber-framed bays with exposed substantial timber-frame with wide braces trenched and nailed across studs, and braced tie beam: triple-roll-moulded principal floor beams and cornice inserted into original hall with rebuilt C16 hearth; warehouse of tlhree timber-framed bays converted to domestic use in c.1700, the whole building divided into three tenements in C19. V.C.H. Vol. VI, p.157 R.C.H.M. Report 1950
Listing NGR: TL4205345799
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52935
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 157
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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