Description

MORBORNE MORBORNE
TL 1291
19/96 Manor Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Dated 1692 on stone above door. Mid to late C19 extension and
alterations. Coursed rubble limestone and Ketton stone dressings. C19 red
brick. Collyweston stone slate roofs with parapet gables. Red brick ridge
stack, and rear stack. Two storeys with attics; L-plan with original
three-unit planned range facing north-west. Original doorway to left of
centre with moulded and stopped jambs, formerly with a four-centred head cut
later to a flat arch, with a moulded cornice. Plain dated stone above doorway
and panel with carved achievement of quartered arms of the Forrests of
Morborne with initials A.F. and later incised initials M.G.W. Windows all
with wooden lintels, two ground floor casement windows and one twelve-paned
hung sash window, two first floor iron framed casement windows and one blocked
window to right hand. C19 side entrance in open brick porch. Interior plan
altered with inserted C19 staircase. Stone chimney piece in south-west first
floor room with similar details to doorway. Ogee-moulded and stop-chamfered
ceiling beams. C19 flower-arranging sink in hallway. The manor farmhouse is
one of three surviving buildings of the original village outlined clearly on
aerial photographs.

RCHM Huntingdonshire p186
VCH Huntingdonshire p188
Aerial Photography Dept Cambs University.

Listing NGR: TL1393891430

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26516387

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)