Manor House

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TM59SW OULTON STREET, Oulton 914-1/3/97 (West side) 13/12/49 Manor House (Formerly Listed as: OULTON STREET, Oulton (West side) Oulton High House)

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Formerly known as: Manor House GORLESTON ROAD. House. Very late C16, altered considerably, and with large late C19 east additions. Brick. Pantile roofs, partly black-glazed, partly red. The west front is of 2 storeys and attic in 4 bays. Rendered, colourwashed and scored. In the second bay (from left) is a panelled late C18 door on HL hinges under a 4-vaned fanlight protected by a late C19 glazed porch. One sash left, 2 right and 4 to the first floor, all with margin glazing and exposed boxes. Gabled roof. Internal C19 gable-end stack to south. 3 late C20 roof lights. The south gable is colourwashed only, revealing the English bond brickwork. 2 blocked C18 first-floor windows and 2 small attic lights. Bargeboards are replacements of 1989. The remainder of the house comprises late C19 two-storey and attic additions to east and north, arranged as a pair of gabled wings at right angles to each other. Gault brick ground floor, tile-hung first floor. The fenestration is all of sashes with glazing bars to the upper sash only, i.e. 6/1. Gabled roofs and a ridge stack on the north range. INTERIOR. The south-west ground-floor room has a sunk-quadrant moulded bridging beam and wall plate. The plaster ceiling of c1590-1600 is divided into squares by multiple roll-moulded ribs with jelly-mould bosses at the intersections. The squares are plain except for a modest boss in each with ballflower decoration. Large-framed C18 panelling remains between the 2 west windows. Panelled window shutters. Until 1912 this room had complete small-framed panelling and a chimneypiece dateable to c1590-1600 (all sold to America). The present chimneypiece has Ionic columns and a fluted frieze. The staircase has stick balusters and a ramped handrail. At the half-landing is a leaded 4-light mullioned window with a central King mullion now looking into the C19 east additions. The first-floor south-west and south-east rooms are entered through early C18 two-panel doors, the former with a sunk-quadrant door-frame of c1600. This room has an elaborate plaster ceiling of the 1590s. Roll-moulded ribs form a central intersecting rectangle with canted ends. The intersections have jelly-mould bosses with water-leaf riders. Arranged around this centrepiece are repeating geometrical rib patterns, also roll-moulded, with floral filigree work. This ceiling and the one in the room below are almost certainly earlier than, and by the same craftsmen as, that to No.4 South Key, Great Yarmouth.

Listing NGR: TM5254494862

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