Description

GELDESTON DUNBURGH ROAD TM 49 SW 8/45 Manor House Farmhouse 25-9-51 - II

Farmhouse. Early C17 and later. Brick, flint with brick dressings, partly rendered and colourwashed. Steeply-pitched pantile roof. Two storeys and attics. Elevation to road rendered and colourwashed: 2 and 3-light casements with transoms and glazing bars in altered openings. Ground floor left-hand side, a 5-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with staybars and one iron casement in segmental arched opening. Single and double square brick niches at first floor level. South elevation has irregular fenestration of C19 and C20 casements of 2 and 3 lights. Two first floor sashes with glazing bars. Two gabled projections, that to the left, a 2-storey porch with 4-centred moulded brick entrance arch set in a square headed recess. Above the arch, an inverted triangular niche with coat of arms. Porch interior has blind niches with 4-centred heads in east and west walls. Entrance door with vertical studded battens; moulded doorframe with barred and stepped stops to moulding. Porch upper floor with slight overhang; walls rendered and colourwashed. East end of house with much flintwork; gabled 2-storey stair turret with 2-light segmental-headed casement with glazing bars; circular east and west windows with moulded brick surrounds. East wall has blocked window with chamfered reveal and blocked doorway with 4-centred head. Parapeted gables, internal chimney stack on north gable. 2 blocked attic windows in west gable. Axial stack off-centre to south. East gable parapet has tumbling-in; lower hipped 2-storey block to east in knapped flint with brick dressings.

Listing NGR: TM4047191497

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas