Listed Building: No. 7 (Ashton Manor) (1/4)

Manor house, now house. Early C17 with earlier origins, altered C19. Coursed limestone rubble, old plain-tile roofs. Stone end and ridge stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic and 3 storeys. C20 door near re-entrant angle with wood lintel. 2- and 3-light casement windows with wood lintels, some stop-moulded. Massive end stack to outer right end of main range, upper portion partly resting on stone corbel. Large segmental-arched opening to end of other wing, now glazed. Former outbuilding range now part of house projects to rear; one storey and loft. Interior: stop-chamfered spine beams, fine dog-leg staircase from ground floor to attic with square newel posts and turned balusters. Stone fireplace with moulded Tudor-arched head and jambs, and stone fireplaces associated with large end stack to ground, 1st and 2nd floors all with chamfered cambered heads, smaller to upper rooms. Sub-divided C19 and split up into 4 dwellings until 1953.

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Oct 1 2021 2:03PM