Description

MANFIELD VILLAGE STREET
NZ 21 SW
(north side)
4/55 Manfield House
18.3.68

- II

2 or 3 cottages, now house. Probably late C18 or early C19, altered c1903.
Coursed rubble and cobbles, pantile roof with stone slates at eaves.
2 storeys, 6 first-floor windows, with polygonal end to left. Quoins at
ends and to angles of polygon. On ground floor, in fourth bay, square bay
window with hipped Westmorland slate roof. Casement windows with projecting
ashlar sills and flush lintels. Hipped roof. Ashlar stacks between first
and second, third and fourth, fifth and sixth bays. Rear: irregular plan,
and with round-arched landing window with intersecting glazing bars. Left
return: French window on ground floor, casement window above. In angle
between polygon and rear staircase range, C20 polygonal 2-storey porch, with
leaved oak board doors below fanlight with radial glazing bars in round-
arched opening, and on first floor round-arched window with radial glazing
bars; castellated parapet. Interior: the house contains many pleasing
architectural fittings, imported c1903, including, in the polygonal west
sitting room, painted oak square moulded panelling and some C18 fielded
panels, also reused window shutters; some rooms have doors of 6 fielded
panels, some of 6 reeded panels, and 1 room has a Victorian door with shaped
panels brought from Cliffe Hall. Wide oak staircase. First-floor rooms not
ceiled, with king-post trusses with curved braces in polygonal bedroom, and
queen-strut trusses at east end.

Listing NGR: NZ2178613529

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26589021

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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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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)