Building record 2646/2/1 - Tansor Manor (& Manor Flat)

Shown as Manor Farm on Ordnance Survey map. Manor house. C16th origins altered and extended C17th, C19th and early C20th. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar facade and Colleyweston slate and lead roofs. Additions include extensions and conservatory.

{1} Shown as Manor Farm on Ordnance Survey map. Manor house. C16th origins altered and extended C17th, C19th and early C20th. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar facade and Colleyweston slate and lead roofs. Originally hall with service range to west. 2 storeys with attic. Main front is a 3-window range. Central, ovolo-moulded, 4-light stone mullion windows, with transoms, to both floors. Similar, 2-light, flanking windows at first floor and a C19 copy to ground floor left. C20 door to right, has remains of 4-centred-arch head set in square moulded stone surround with cornice over. Right corner is set back and corbels out below eaves. Pair of hipped eaves dormers. Chamfered plinth and ashlar gable parapets. Ashlar stack to rear of range has moulded stone cornice. 3-light stone mullion window in right gable. 4-window range, to right, has a lower eaves level and is probably part C17 and part C19 and C20. C19 two-and 3-light stone mullion windows and early C20 leaded casements. 2 first floor win ows have hipped eaves dormers. Straight joint, to left of centre of this range, indicates different builds. C19 one-bay extension to left has C20 cross casement windows under flat stone arches. Chamfered plinth may indicate rebuilding of earlier range. C20 conservatory to far left. Rear elevation has C17 three-storey gabled porch/stair turret, to right. Early C20, two-storey, extensions attached to rear have stone mullion windows, central doorway with 4-centred-arch head and flat lead roof. C19 C20 single-storey extension projects to right. Interior: Entrance Hall has C17 fireplace with 4-centred-arch head, probably reset. Early C20 staircase with turned balusters. Former ground floor hall, now Drawing Room has large fireplace with 4-centred-arch head and square surround. Spine beam with wooden corbels. Room to right of main front has open fireplace with moulded bressumer and Delft tiles to fireback wall. Attic has 3 arched-braced trusses with 2 tiers of butt-purlins and curved wind braces. Originally probably exposed to chamber below although it is also said that the roof structure may have been raised.

{5} Undated photo;

{7} Twenty-two photos, two dated 16th August 1994, four dated 2nd December 2011, fifteen dated 27th September 1993 and one undated;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/138 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G10 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.149 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77384.

<4> 1998, SMR Report Form & Attached Plan, (unchecked) (SMR Report Form). SNN54324.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Tansor (Photographs). SNN113271.

<6> Historic England, Undated, TANSOR MANOR, TANSOR, BF084449 (Archive). SNN116020.

<7> Photographs of buildings in Tansor (Photographs). SNN113271.

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Jun 11 2025 12:23PM