Description

SK 77 NE RAMPTON TORKSEY STREET (north side)

1/63 Manor Farmhouse and attached outbuilding and 1.2.67 wall

G.V. II

Farmhouse and attached outbuilding and walls. Early C18. Red brick and ashlar. Slate roof with raised ashlar coped gables and kneelers. 4 red brick gable stacks. Raised eaves band. Set on an ashlar plinth with moulded band over. Double range plan. 2 storeys plus garrets, 5 bays. With moulded red brick first floor band. Central doorway, the top 2 panels of the 6 panel door being glazed, with traceried overlight, ashlar architrave and cornice hood supported on consoles. Either side are 2 glazing bar sashes with flush wedge lintels and keystones. Above are 5 similar sashes and lintels. Attached to the rear right is a single storey red brick and pantile 4 bay outbuilding with single red brick ridge stack and single similar stack to the front right. Dentil eaves. Set on an ashlar plinth. Doorway with plank door, to the right is a single glazing bar Yorkshire sash, a doorway with plank door and further right a similar, smaller sash. To the right is a lower wing with doorway with plank door. Attached to the front right is a red brick wall with ashlar coping, this extends for 7 metres and is flanked at either end by single coped piers. The wall then drops down and extends southwards for 30 metres, being buttressed and broken by a gateway at the north end. It rises to meet a similar pier with raised and shaped coping, turns at a right angle and continues west on a coursed rubble and brick plinth with chamfered ashlar coping for 22 metres, being broken by a now blocked gateway with raised and shaped ashlar coping simulating piers. At the west end it rises to a similar pier with attached taller coped pier with shaped ashlar finial and then turns northwards for 6 metres terminating in the wall of the C16 gateway. Interior has a dogleg close string staircase with turned balusters, cut spandrels and moulded handrail.

Listing NGR: SK7998678593

External Links

• Wikidata Q26527317

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)