Description

MORETONHAMPSTEAD
SX 78 SE
5/103 Wray Barton
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GV II

Manor House. Circa 1840. Stucco walls with slate roof, gabled on all sides.
Rendered brick octagonal chimneys. Dressed granite detail.
Victorian Tudor Gothic style. Central stairhall plan with the 2 main front rooms
facing the garden, behind which is the side entrance lobby to the left leading to
the central stairhall with kitchen and service rooms behind. Small room to rear
left faces the entrance side.
3 storeys. 2 gables on each side originally. Asymmetrical 2-window entrance side
with central doorway and slightly projecting chimney stack with weathering to the
right. Windows are 12-pane sashes with hoodmoulds above. 2nd floor window in left
gable is pointed lancet. Stringcourse above 2nd floor window follows line of
gables. Slightly projecting granite 4-centred arched doorway with heavy roll
moulding and arched hoodmould; stepped gable above. Diagonal buttresses on each
corner. Garden front at the right return is symmetrical with 2 canted 3-light bay
windows which originally had battlements. 1st and 2nd floor windows identical to
those on entrance front. Side opposite entrance is irregular wing with granite
mullion windows.
Good interior with much original plasterwork and joinery which includes 6-panel
doors and staircase with curved handrail and curtail step, stick balusters and
carved tread ends. Hall and landings have modillion cornice. Hall has central
ceiling rose. Front room left has ornate moulded cornice and ceiling band of
trailing vine and grapes. Panelled shutters to bay windows of both main rooms.
Front room right has cornice and ceiling band and fireplace with eared architrave.
Main first floor bedroom has simple moulded cornice (as do other first floor rooms)
and fireplace with eared architrave.

Listing NGR: SX7701684611

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389463

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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