Description

FAWLER MAIN STREET SP3717 (North-east side) 14/25 The Manor House

- II

Farmhouse, now house. Mid-to-late C17 with late C18 or early C19 addition and C20 alterations. Coursed Iimestone rubble and some ironstone, with stone dressings. Stone slate roof. T-plan. Three storeys with 2-storey wing to front. Stone ridge stack to right with chamfered weathering and external stone end stack to left with chamfered offsets and C20 brick top stage. Three gabled dormers with 2-light small-paned wooden casements. Three-window front; C19 and C20 small-paned casements, some with stone cills. Later gabled wing projecting at right angles off-centre to left: integral lateral stone stack to right with pitched-roofed link to attic; 2-light casement to each floor with flat stone arch and stone cill, and one-light attic casement. Six-panelled door to main range, in left-hand angle of wing, with C20 lean-to stone porch. The main entrance to the house was formerly by a first floor door off-centre to right, approached by a flight of wooden steps up the side of the wing (see old photograph kept in house). The right-hand ground floor casement is a C20 insertion. Right-hand gable end with 2-light casement to first and second floor. Former outbuilding adjoining to left, eaves raised and fenestrated in the C20. Interior: principal rooms to first floor. Left-hand first-floor room: C17 moulded stone fireplace with bar stops. Moulded plaster cornice. Left-hand second-floor rood: C17 moulded stone fireplace with bar stops. Pair of deep-chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops.

Listing NGR: SP3716317090

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