Description

SE 36 SE STAVELEY MAIN STREET
(North side)
3/105 Manor Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Mid C17 core, altered and encased mid C18, later additions and
alterations. Some internal timber framing; brick with some pebble banding,
partly roughcast; C20 cement-tile roof. 2 storeys with partial cellar, 4
windows to 1st floor, continuous rear outshut with small single-storey addition
to rear right. Bay 1, formed into a separate cottage, has old boarded door to
right of a damaged 2-light horizontally-sliding sash; 1st-floor band beneath
similar window with projecting sill; projecting end stack on
left. Remaining bays each have a 4-pane sash with projecting sill to each
floor; continuous brick band; part-glazed door between bays 3 and 4; central
brick ridge stack. Rear: exposed brickwork on pebble plinth; small boarded
window openings; old 6-panel door into side of 1-storey addition. Left return:
embedded wall-post at junction with outshut; exposed mid-rail overlain by
exterior stack having front offset and bands. Right return: exposed walling of
later date has pebble/brick bonding.
Interior: left end cottage has chamfered oak ceiling joists (only partially
exposed); jowled rear wall-post and tie beam exposed in 1st-floor room. Main
house: chamfered spire beam with one half-pyramidal stop in left-end room
(common joists probably survive behind plaster). Rear-right wall-exposed in
pantry (set approx 2 metres in from end wall), it continues to 1st floor. To
front side of central fireplace in each ground floor-left room, are boarded
pine cupboards with H/L hinges. Visible from cellar steps in outshut is a
blocked doorway from the ground-floor-left room, it has probably C17 boarded
door in framed opening with triangular head. Vaulted cellar beneath rear
garden.
The rear wall with outshut may conceal more framing than described here. Roof
construction probably early C19.

Listing NGR: SE3628562721

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26442940

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Recommended Books

• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)