Listed Building: Church Farmhouse and attached walls (4/50)

Farmhouse, formerly rectory and manor house. Early C18. Ironstone ashlar, tile roof, brick central stacks on stone bases. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Principal front to forecourt has 6-panel central door with overlight and keyblock; 12-pane sash windows throughout with stone sills, surrounds and keyblocks; windows to three centre bays more closely spaced. Keyblocks of ground floor windows meet first floor storey band; a string at sill level of first floor windows forms a second band. Plinth, moulded stone eaves and hipped roof. Stone coped quadrant wall extends right. Left side elevation to garden of four windows has similar sashes and bands; wider spacing between middle windows with large central shield-shaped stone sundial between first floor windows. To left a stone coped brick garden wall with flared headers and convex curve to match quadrant wall to right which is lined with similar brickwork on this side. Rear and right side elevation to yard have courser masonry, no string courses and windows with 2-light casements, some leaded, with timber lintels. Rear elevation has central round-arched window lighting staircase and four hipped dormers. Right side elevation of 3 windows has back door with C19 porch. 12-pane sash windows either side and above porch flanked by 2-light leaded casements all with timber lintels. Interior: central staircase hall has fine open well staircase with 3 balusters to each tread, carved tread ends, ramped handrail and child gate to landing with thinner matching balusters. Drawing Room has original panelling with fluted Doric pilasters. Fine early C16 frieze probably removed from previous manor house with fantastic beasts and hunting scenes and monograms T.A. and K.A. probably those of Sir Thomas Andrews and his first wife Katherine Andrews, who died 1555. Overmantel with large coat of arms. Backstairs have serpentine splat balusters. House forms the central part of a formal composition with Gardener's Cottage (g.v.) and stable block and attached wall (g.v.). (Pevsner Buildings of England: Northants, 1973, p.148).

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