Listed Building: Timber framed house attached to north side of Manor House (17/8)

House. C17, from Cow Street, Ipswich, re-erected in 1903 under the supervision of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Timber framed with close studding and some diagonal braces; tile roof, brick stacks. L-plan. Re-erected on sloping ground with the addition of a stone basement to the north side and two right bays. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic. 4 bays with oversailing upper floor. Central doorway with moulded wood frame with 4-centred arch, the spandrels carved with foliage. Rectangular panel above carved with a pediment framed by draperies and foliage, Two wood mullioned and transomed windows with moulded wood frames to left, each is of two lights but with 4 small arched lights above the transom. 2 mullioned and transomed bay windows to right, with similar small arched lights in the head. 3-light first floor windows with moulded wood mullions and transoms in the left bay and second bay from right. Other first floor windows are similar, of 2 2-lights. Pilaster and bracket on right angle carved with blind tracery and quatrefoils. Wing projecting to right at rear, C17, similar materials. 2 storeys and basement. 2 bays. Interior: Several corbelled stone fireplaces of varied designs. 1st floor hall with hammerbeam roof and traceried spandrels, considerably renewed. Ground-floor, principal room (garden side) with framed ceiling, a Renaissance medallion panelled cornice, and large fireplace with terns, and heraldic device to overmantel panel flanked by caryatids.' The house was exhibited at White City as a fine example of half timber construction. It was purchased by Lord Wimbourne and re-erected at Ashby St. Ledgers under protest from Lutyens. (C. Hussey, Ashby St. Ledgers Manor House, Country Life, July 1951).

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