Description

SO 75 NW KNIGHTWICK CP -

1/35 Manor House
12/11/51
-

- II*

Farmhouse. Early C18. Brick with hipped, tiled roof. 2 storeys
and platt band; 7 bays, 2:3:2, with 4 brick pilasters, one at each
end and at main bay divisions; windows are 18-pane sashes with
gauged flat heads except for 2 end bays to right where upper left
window is blocked and 2 ground floor windows which have a wooden mullion
and 2 transomes; there is a small wooden sign with DAIRY painted on it
above the right ground floor window; central half-glazed, panelled double
doors recessed within moulded architrave and canopy with simple moulded
detail. Brick stacks to ridge above pilasters to central 3 bays.
Interior Hall fireplace has late C17 carved oak panelled chimney-piece;
Parlour has Jacobean panelling with fluted frieze with early C18 aedicule
in south wall with painting of 4 nude children at back of recess, plaster
ceiling of four deep panels with moulded edges, and late C17 carved oak
chimneypiece; part of early C18 dog-legged stair with a moulded handrail
and turned balusters survives above first floor level. The farmhouse is
built upon the sandstone cellars of a C17 or earlier building; three 2-
light mullioned cellar windows survive in the south elevation.

Listing NGR: SO7216855061

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547793

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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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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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)