Description

MANATON
SX 78 SW
4/1 Barracott
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- II

House formerly farmhouse. Probably C19 re-modelling of earlier house. Granite
rubble walls with dressed quoins, rear wing slate hung on first floor. Slate roof
with gabled ends. Chimneys rendered, probably brick.
Original house probably 3-room-and-through-passage, considerably re-modelled in
C19, possibly as 2 cottages. Mid - late C19 dairy wing added at rear.
2 storeys. Each block has a 2-window front with a door and window to the right on
the ground floor. C20 casements with glazing bars and timber lintels except for
ground floor left of centre which has rough granite lintel. All windows in small
openings. Doors both C20 stable type. Right hand door enclosed by stone open-
Fronted porch with lean-to slate roof. Rear wing behind left end of main block, in
its gable end, possibly the original dairy window survives with iron stanchion
bars. Tall window opening at centre of rear of house probably intended to light
staircase.
Interior not inspected but known to contain 2 open fireplaces, that to right hand
gable stack has plain granite framing. Probably considerably modernised.

Listing NGR: SX7353281686

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618860

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Berkshire (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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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)