Description

TF 19 SE KIRMOND LE MIRE MAIN STREET (north side)

7/10 Manor Farmhouse with attached smithy and stables 1.11.66. (formerly listed as Kirmond II Manor House)

Small country house with attached smithy and stables to rear. Mid C18, early C19. Redbrick with ashlar dressings. Pantile hipped, double ridge roofs with 2 ridge stacks and single stack on hip at rear. Decorated brick eaves. 2 storey and attic. 2 bay south front with central doorway with round headed ashlar architrave with raised keystone, fanlight and 6 panelled door. Doorway flanked by single windows with segmental heads and raised ashlar keystones, that to the left, a glazing bar sash, that to the right, blocked. 2 glazing bar sashes above, both with segmental heads and raised ashlar keystones. West side of 5 bays, that to the night projecting slightly. 5 glazing bar sashes with segmental heads and raised ashlar keystones, with 5 glazing bar sashes above, that to the right with segmental head and raised ashlar keystone. 2 small semi-ciruclar domers. East side with first floor band and decorated eaves. 4 irregular bays with 3 glazing bar sashes with 3 above, and a fourth breaking through the first floor band with a segmental head. Mid C19 extension, smithy, stables, and cart shed to rear on west side. Extension with decorated eaves and 2 glazing bar sashes with segmental heads with doorway to the right with segmental head, plain overlight, and 4 panelled door. Plank double doors further left with small opening with shutter beyond. 4 stable doors alternate with 3 shuttered openings. Smithy has tall chimney, a window with segmental head and close set vertical bars, and a doorway beyond. Interior of forge intact. Cart shed attached beyond. Interior of house, has mid C18 2 flight return staircase with 3 cylindrical moulded balusters with knops to each step, ornate carved treadends and V moulded handrail. Mid C18 drawing room with high quality fielded panelling, delicately moulded cornice with egg and dart, foliated scroll and dentil decoration. Marble fireplace with ornate, deeply carved chimney piece with central, sharply carved stylised flower head flanked by foliate scrolls. Moulded square panel above with lugged corners containing rosettes.

Listing NGR: TF1886892634

External Links

• Wikidata Q26316826

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)