Manor House
MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226359
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE
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- Date:
- 2001-09-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/05256/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226359
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE
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 HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Farthinghoe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 53967 38715
Details
SP 53 NW FARTHINGHOE STEANE
5/179 Manor House
- II
Farmhouse. 1884-5 by George Devey. Coursed limestone rubble, pebble-dash in gables. Plain tile roof with gable-ended cross- wings. Axial and lateral stacks with red brick shafts with brick cornices.
H-shaped on plan. Long central range with cross-wing at either end and entrance vestibule and stairhall to left of centre. The service rooms are to the right (south).
2 storeys. Asymmetrical long west front with projecting gabled cross-wings to left and right, with moulded bargeboards, small pendants, pebble-dash in gable with moulded bresummer below. Between the wings the main roof is carried down to lower eaves. Doorway to left of centre with chamfered stone 4-centred arch, hoodmould and glazed and panelled double doors. Mainly 3-light casements in segmental-headed openings, those on left and right of doorway under eaves arer the stair windows. Right hand (south) return: 4-centred arch service doorway to left of large projecting lateral stack, its stone quoins continuing in the red brick shaft which has tumbled brick set-off; large semi-circular oven to right of stack with tile roof with tile-hung gable; single storey outhouse to left has gable end similar to main gables. Rear (east) elevation has cross-wing to left and right with similar pebble- dash gables; gable on right carried on pebble-dash 2-storey rectangular bay window and corner braces on corbels. Blocked chamfered 4-centred arch stone doorway to left of right hand crosswing and various 2,3,4 and 5-light casements, those on ground floor large and in segmental arch openings.
Interior: Much of the original joinery survives including 2-panel doors and the main and servants' stairs with moulded and stick balusters respectively. The chimney pieces on ground floor have been replaced except for that of the kitchen fireplace. Most of the first floor chimneypieces remain. The partition wall between the front and back rooms in the north cross-wing has been taken down.
Source: R.I.B.A. Drawings Collection.
Listing NGR: SP5396738715
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423605
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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