Description

HABTON VILLAGE STREET
SE 77 NE
(east side, off)
Great Habton
2/24
Manor Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse; now 2 farmhouses. c1800, incorporating an C18 house; early C19
extension and alteration; further alteration in C20. C18 house of red brick
in English garden wall bond; later house of pink-cream brick in Flemish bond
to front; extension and part of rear wing in English garden wall bond; part
of wing in dressed stone; slate roofs and brick stacks. Central-stairhall
plan, one room deep, with earlier house to right; rear service wing with
parallel range added later adapted to second house. Main front: 3-storey,
3-window front with 2-storey, single-window front to right. Door of
6 raised and fielded panels with patterned overlight, approached by flight
of stone steps and beneath cornice porch. 12-pane sash over door. Other
ground and first-floor windows are 16-pane sashes. Second floor has unequal
9-pane sash flanked by unequal 12-pane sashes. All windows have painted
stone sills and painted wedge lintels. Coped gables and shaped kneelers.
End stacks. Earlier front to right has 16-pane sashes to ground and first
floors, to right of later enlarged entrance. Coped gable and shaped kneeler
to right. Central stack. Left return: 2-storey, 2-window front to left.
Door of 6 raised and fielded panels with divided overlight to right of 16-
pane sash with painted stone sill; 2 similar windows to first floor.
Painted wedge lintels to all openings. Interior of main house: ground-floor
doors of 6 raised and fielded panels in reeded architraves with paterae.
Round arched openings with moulded imposts to rear of ground-floor hall and
first-floor landing. First-floor room to left has reeded fireplace
surrounded with paterae. Second-floor rooms to front have basket grates.
Interior of earlier house: plank and muntin partitions survive on the first
floor.

Listing NGR: SE7597676354

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26442048

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)