Listed Building: The Manor House and attached walls and gates (1371240)

Country house. Early C17 and C18 possibly with older origins, extended mid C19, repaired and attic nursery created by Sir Edwin Lutyens 1935. Coursed squared limestone, old plain-tile roofs, brick ridge, lateral and internal stacks. Complex plan. 2 storeys and attic; 10-window range. Gabled cross-wings project either end and just left of centre of long main range, with shallow 2-storey canted bay windows to gable ends of wings. Bays have tripartite sash windows to ground and 1st floors with stone lintels, keyblocks and hood moulds. 3-window section of main range between left and middle cross-wings has central gabled stone porch with moulded Tudor-arched head, hood mould and C20 door; carved stone head to gable of porch. Narrow rectangular 1-light windows to this section of main range with stone lintels, one and 2-light casement windows to section between middle and right cross-wings with stone lintels and keyblocks; all have hood moulds. Inner right side of left cross-wing has blocked window to ground floor and 3-light leaded casement window to 1st floor, both with wood lintels. C20 hipped dormer window to right of middle cross-wing. Stack at left end of main range has stone base. C18 brick plinth to flue. All stacks have terracotta chimneypots. Overhanging eaves. Garden elevation to rear has similar composition and irregular glazing of sash and casement windows. Space between middle and rear right cross-wings is filled by twin-gabled single-storey extension with valley. C20 part-glazed garden door to left of centre and row of tall gabled dormer windows, lighting nursery, to main range behind extension. Attached walls of coursed limestone rubble are capped with plain-tile slopes with brick coping to ridge and flank garden to rear and enclose forecourt, which has timber double-leaf gates. Interior: ogee stop-chamfered spine beams to ground and 1st floor and ogee-stop-chamfered cross beams to C17 core. Stone fireplace in hall with cambered head and keyblock. Other C18 and early C19 stone and marble chimneypieces probably brought-in C20. Main staircase has C17 style turned balusters and probably dates from c.1935. Fine panelled stair to nursery. 5-light ovolo-moulded wood mullion window, now internal, lights corridor. Stone cellar. Roof of middle cross-wing and to section of main range between middle and right cross-wings has stop-chamfered principal rafters and wind-braced purlins probably early C17. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p370) .

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