Description

SK 67 SW CARBURTON PIPER LANE
(West side)

9/6 Manor House
(Formerly listed
30.11.66 as Manor Farm-
house)

G.V. II

Farmhouse. Late C17 with C18, C19 and C20 alterations. Squared
limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, slate roofs
with raised stone coped gables and kneelers. 4 pairs of stacks,
2 gable and 2 ridge. Front has 2 gable and 2 ridge stacks, the
latter has 3 diagonally set shafts. 2 storey, 3 bay front with
timber eaves board, central half glazed door with early C19
plastered wooden surround supporting a narrow moulded hood,
flanked by single C20 glazing bar casements set in C19 openings
with facetted lintels. To first floor are 3 glazing bar
casements in C17 double chamfered surrounds with cornices. In
the right hand gable is a C20 window in a C17 moulded stone
architrave with pulvinated frieze and cornice; the original
window would have had 2 lights. To rear is a 2 storey 4 bay
front arranged 2:1:1 with the third bay being deeply recessed and
separately gabled with a garret. Original Cl7 central chamfered
stone surround for doorway now blocked and superseded by a C20
entrance porch. To left are 2 glazing bar sashes and to the
right one similar. Ground floor windows retain their C17 stone
surrounds with moulded cornices. To first floor above the
earlier doorway a C17 window surround and cornice is visible,
superseded by an off centre glazing bar sash with a small C20
light to the right. To the left are 2 early C18 glazing bar
sashes occupying enlarged Cl7 stone window surrounds, the
cornices of which remain. To right a single C20 glazing bar sash
with C17 surround but a C20 lintel. To apex of central bay a
smaller glazing bar sash in a former 2 light C17 window: the
upper stool for a mullion remains. Interior retains one
fireplace with pulvinated frieze and dentillated cornice. Early
C19 niche in the right hand room, moulded cornices throughout and
high beamed ceilings.

Listing NGR: SK6115573301

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26297838

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)