Description

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NORTH NIBLEY
ST 79 NW
1/10001 Pitt Court Manor
II
Farmhouse, now house. C16 or earlier, much remodelled and
extended in late C17. Coursed limestone rubble, roughcast to
front, with pantile roof and brick stacks. 3-unit plan with end
stacks and axial hall stack backing onto through passage (blocked
to rear); late C17 wing to rear right built to rear of parlour
and making L-plan; stair outshut at angle with rear wing. 2
storeys. 3-window front has mid C20 porch and 3-4-light windows.
Right-hand gable has C17 two-light wood-mullioned stair window
and a large chamfered lintel over a chamfered 2-light wood-
mullioned first-floor window. Rear elevation has chamfered
surround to small window to rear of hall stack. Rear wing has
C19 rear lean-to with plank door and pantile roof. Interior:
chamfered ogee-stopped and ovolo-moulded beams throughout.
First-floor room to left has morticed soffits to cross beam and
two axial beams indicating position of former closet. Timber-
framed partitions to first floor on right, the right-hand first-
floor room having a rare surviving example of a newel stair made
of solid timber-treads. Roof: 3 C18 trusses to left of stack
with tusk tenoned purlins, the service end rear wall having been
rebuilt; adjoining right side of stack is an early C17/late C16
collar truss with trenched principals, and 2 bays with a cambered
collar to central trusses; C17 oak-framed doorway with chamfered
arched surround leads from this range into right-hand section of
roof, which appears to have continued to form a cross-wing gable
to front; 2 late C17 trusses with tenoned purlins and threaded
ridge.
The right-hand ground-floor section of the house retains an oak-
framed chamfered, 2-centred doorway of late medieval type;
panelled parlour of c1730-40 with dentilled cornice, panelled
doors, later graffiti date of 1781 and fine overmantle painting
depicting hunting scene flanked by fluted pilasters with Doric
entablature; C18 surround fronts C17 fireplace with stop-
chamfered bressummer.

Listing NGR: ST7487896276

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541055

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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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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)