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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26591423

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)