Description

COLAN
SW 86 SW
5/6 Manuels Farmhouse
- II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably early - mid C18, with additions and alterations of
C19 and later C20 alterations. Incorporates a datestone, RS 1617. Slatestone rubble
and cob, rendered. Slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends; gable end stacks with
brick shafts. Addition to left with slurried scantle slate roof with gable end to
left with stack with brick shaft.
Plan: Double depth plan. 2 rooms to front, one larger to left and smaller to right,
each room heated from a gable end stack. Shallow unheated rear service rooms in an
integral outshut. In circa mid C19 a one-room plan addition was made to the left
end, heated from a gable end stack. Single storey with loft additions made to the
front of C19 addition.
Exterior: Asymmetrical front of 2 storeys and 3 windows, the upper level rendered.
All windows are C19 16-pane sashes. Gabled open-fronted porch with inner 4-panelled
and glazed door. The addition to left is 2-storey, with similar 16-pane sash at
ground and first floor. The front addition has 3-light C20 window at ground floor
and small 4-pane light to loft. 2-light 8-pane casement at the right side of the
wing. The right end has 4-pane sash at ground floor to right and 2-light 6-pane
casement at first floor to right. The left side has C20 16-pane sash at ground and
first floor. Single storey C20 addition to right. The rear has 6-pane sash lighting
the stair. Ground floor right has 3-pane light to former dairy. At the rear left
side is a 6-pane C20 light at ground floor and 4-pane sash at first floor.
Interior: The end left room (in the C19 addition) has panelled shutters to the front
window. The rear outshut has been altered as one room, with a staircase.

Listing NGR: SW8395460068

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26437083

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback