Description

TL 5664 SWAFFHAM PRIOR LOWER END
(West Side)

13/184 No 37 Manor Farmhouse

II

Manor house on a moated site incorporating parts of a c17 and
C18 house, but the external appearance is that of a mid C19
house. The original house is timber-framed, plaster rendered
but underbuilt in C18 in brick. Part of this is visible in the
rear wall. Mid C19 house is grey brick with low pitch roof of
slate with a ridge stack and an end stack with the projecting
capping carried on brackets. Plan of main range with service
wing at rear. Two storeys. Rusticated surround and round
headed arch to principal entry in two storey porch with Dutch
gable and stone dressings and details. Two bay windows
surmounted by small brick piers with ball finials flank the
doorway. A tripartite hung sash is to left hand. Above, at
first floor, are gauged brick seqmental arches to three hung
sashes of twelve panes each.

R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p126, mon (27).

Listing NGR: TL5709364610

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26419965

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)