Description

CHARLTON KINGS

SO9621SE GREENWAY LANE
630-1/30/68 (South side)
14/12/83 No.26
Little Manor
(Formerly Listed as:
GREENWAY LANE
Little Manor)

II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 or early C17. Probably for John
Holden, with later additions and alterations including dairy
wing of c1720 and probably C20 lean-to entrance porch to
right, and c1920 extension to rear and interior alterations
for Benjamin Gough. Timber-frame with plaster infill, some
wattle and daub and some brick on limestone sill; with renewed
tile roof and C20 brick chimney.
EXTERIOR: one-and-a-half storeys, 3 cells. Small panels of
square timber-framing with arch braces. Entrance to right a
timber door. Casement windows throughout of 1, 4, 3 and 2
lights. 2 full dormers. Half-hipped roof and left ridge stack.
INTERIOR: extensive exposed timber-framing. Inglenook
fireplace to central hall (original kitchen) has chamfered
bressumer, with crane and pothooks. Chamfered beam. Jowled
posts to ground floor with tie-beam with scroll and notch
stop, and a massive post to first-floor supports roof truss.
Further smaller fireplace to parlour with replaced bressumer.
First floor has exposed purlins and rafters; roof has been
altered, tie-beams and principal rafters exposed. Extension to
rear interrupts wall-plate. C17 panelled door reused in dairy
chamber. Early C19 6-panelled door to parlour.
HISTORICAL NOTE: reputed from deed to be standing in 1624;
built on site of earlier farmhouse. Originally known as
Ryeworth Farm. The name was changed to Little Manor c1920-30
by Gough. The roof was probably thatched originally.
(Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin: 1992-: 2-23).

Listing NGR: SO9664021197

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666305

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2