MANOR FARM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1285731
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1968
List Entry Name:: MANOR FARM
Statutory Address:: MANOR FARM

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1285731
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1968
List Entry Name:: MANOR FARM
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR FARM

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MANOR FARM

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Corsley
National Grid Reference:: ST 82905 46742

Details

CORSLEY CORSLEY VILLAGE ST 84 NW (north side) 7/75 Manor Farm 11.9.68 GV II* Farmhouse. Circa 1560, probably for Sir John Thynne. English bond brick, tiled roof with groups of diagonally-set brick stacks. Through passage to left of hall with lateral stack, rear wings flanking courtyard. Two-storey and attic, 5-window. Tudor-arched doorway with ribbed door to left of centre with square sundial over, two 3-light hollow-chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds and one 4-light mullioned and transomed casement to right, 4-light and 3-light mullioned casement with hoodmoulds to left. First floor has three 3-light mullioned and transomed casements to centre with 4-light mullioned casement either side. Three attic gables with 3-light mullioned casements with hoodmoulds, large lateral stack to right with offsets incorporated into gable to right. Right return has planked door inserted into cross window, 4-light mullioned and transomed casements to first, one blocked, 3-light mullioned casements to attic gables. Left return has 2-light mullioned casements to ground, first and attic floors, lean-to extension, C20 casement to left. Rear has symmetrically-placed gabled wings, the left has basement with 2- light mullioned casement, 3-light mullioned casements to other floors, wing to right has similar windows and buttress with offsets facing courtyard. Rear of main range has external stone stack to hall fireplace, blocked Tudor-arched doorway in C19 lean-to porch and mullioned and transomed casement to right. Interior not accessible at time of survey (June 1986), but said to have blocked open stone fireplace in hall to right of entrance, some wainscot panelling, staircases in both wings, kitchen formerly in east wing. House reputedly built or rebuilt for Sir John Thynne, whilst Longleat House (q.v. Horningsham) was rebuilt during 1560s. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965)

Listing NGR: ST8290546742

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 313713
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1965)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.