Manor Farmhouse

Details

14/120 GRANCHESTER


MILL WAY
(West Side)

Nos 4 and 6 (formerly
listed as Manor Farmhouse)

The address shall be amended to read
MILL WAY
(West Side)

Nos 4 and 6
(Manor Farmhouse)

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GRANTCHESTER MILL WAY
TL 4355 (West Side)

14/120 Nos. 4 and 6 (Formerly
31. 8.62 listed as Manor Farmhouse)

II*

Manor house. c.1452 with additions and alterations of C17 and later.
Timber-framed, rendered and alterations and additions of red brick, painted.
Tiled roofs with internal and side stacks. C15 house of single north-south
range of four bays, possibly with one adjoining wing at the south east and
another at the north east. In C17 additions were made to east side, which is
also the principal elevation. Two storeys and cellars. The C15 east facade
is now obscured by C17 additions. That at the centre is red brick and tiled
and has end stack with offsets and three diagonally set shafts, repaired.
The main entry is at the side of this stack and has been inserted in C19 in
part of the wall. This addition is of one room deep. Adjoning on the right
is a further C17 brick addition. Fenestration is all C19 or C211 but there
are square headed drip moulds of C17 to openings, now blocked or altered.
The crosswing at the south east is timber-framed, tiled. C15 in origin
altered in C17 and C19. Two storeys. Principal range of C15 manor house is
at the rear. Three C19 windows at first floor and two at ground floor. One
French window is on the site of the cross-passage entry, now a kitchen. The
opposing doorway in east wall is now internal. At the north end of the house
there are C19 brick service additions. Interior: Although the structure is
substantially intact, very little of the framing is visible. Most of the
details are of c.1840. The C15 house had a two-bay open-hall with side stack
of clunch, now internal. There was a gallery (referred to by Cole) at the
south end above the cross-passage and the solar was at the north end. The
hall was floored in C17. Some framing is visible in the screens partition
wall and in the plate, with its hollow moulding, at first floor The house
has always been cellared. The joists in the cellar are original. The clunch
base of the original side stack is arched over the C15 sewer. A later brick
lined drain leads off the cellar. The site is moated. The manor was
acquired by Kings College Cambridge from Executors of Henry Somer, former
Chancellor of the Exchequer, in 1452 as a home farm and has remained College
property.
J Saltmarsh: A College Home Farm in C15, Economic History III, 11 (February
1936), 155-72)
R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon.(2)
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p393


Listing NGR: TL4330755414

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 393
Economic History in Economic History, Vol. 3, (1936), 155-72

Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)

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