Building record 1127/2/1 - Manor House Farm

Farmhouse now house. Late C17 with C18 alterations. Regular coursed lias with slate roof

{1} Farmhouse now house. Late C17 with C18 alterations. Regular coursed lias with slate roof. 3-unit plan with cross wing to left. 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range. Entrance in cross wing with stone lintel has keystone and C19 half-glazed door, 3 sashes with glazing bars to right of entrance have stone lintels with keyblock. Two 2-light stone mullions at first floor. Ashlar gable parapets with brick and stone stacks at ridge and end. Rear and sides similar with stone mullions. C19 and C20 extension to left side. Interior: Round-headed arch to right of rear entrance hall. Drawing room to left of entrance has late C17 open fire with moulded stone surround. 3 moulded beams in same room with central rosette decoration. Dogleg stair.

{3} Undated photo;

{4} A programme of building recording was carried out ahead of alteration and conversion. A 17th/18th century bakehouse building, composed of faced blocks of ironstone, with some larger quoin-type blocks at the corners of the south-west gable end, also stands to the east of The Manor House. The position of the former bakehouse oven was marked by an extensive wall scar and sooting of internal surfaces. It likely had a two-flue chimney but which had been removed by the date of the recording.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 3/168 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G01 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Guilsborough (Photographs). SNN111759.

<4> Frances Bradbury, 2023, The Manor House, Nortoft, Guilsborough, Northamptonshire: Historic Building Recording (Level 2) (Report). SNN116395.

Record last edited

Sep 3 2024 4:06PM