Building record 5616/3/1 - Manor Farmhouse & Attached Coachouse

Farmhouse. Early/mid C19. Squared coursed limestone with C20 plain tile and Collyweston slate roof. Double depth plan.

{1} Farmhouse. Early/mid C19. Squared coursed limestone with C20 plain tile and Collyweston slate roof. Double depth plan. 2 storeys. Elevation to farmyard of 3-window range of varying sized casements under flat stone arches with keyblocks. 6-panel door to far left and 4-panel door to far right also under flat stone arches. Cross wing breaks forward to left and has a sash window with glazing bars under flat stone arch with keyblocks. Ashlar gable parapets and ashlar stacks at ridge and end. Elevation on to garden has 3 sash windows with glazing bars and central panelled door with arch-head fanlight. Rear elevation has some leaded casements. Coach house attached to left of main front, remodelled mid C19 with brick front, has Collyweston slate roof. 2 plank doors under segmental arches. Gable end has leaded cross window. Interior: passage between coach house and farmhouse has some fielded panels said to be reset from earlier house nearby, now demolished, which was probably the manor house of the Mulsha family.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/146 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G07 p.79 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Page W. (ed), 1930, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p.248 (unchecked) (Series). SNN100370.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Twywell (Photographs). SNN113617.

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