Building record 1156/5/1 - The Manor House

Ecton Manor Farm (Formerly Newhall Manor). A two-storey, T-shaped house built in 1694.

{1} Shown as No.56 (Manor Farm) on Ordnance Survey map. Manor house. Datestone HBE/1694 for Henry Bagley, C18 alterations. Squared coursed and regular coursed lias with ashlar dressings and slate roof laid to diminishing courses. T-shape plan. 2 storeys with attic. Entrance front of 3-window range of 4- and 6-light stone mullion and transom windows, those at ground floor have relieving arches over with keystones. Central C17 panelled and studded door, reputedly from Whiston Manor House, has moulded architrave with linked square and circle pattern, plain frieze and moulded architrave above. Later pedimented hood over. Rusticated quoins, and plain string courses between floors. Moulded stone cornice and ashlar gable parapets and kneelers. Central roof dormer with simple pediment. Ashlar stacks at ends with moulded cornices. Gable to left has two 2-light first floor window, now blocked, with stone transoms and 2 similar single-light attic windows above. Projecting wing to rear of manor. Window range to garden with one 4-light stone mullion and transom window, with leaded lights, to right, and two C18 sashes with glazing bars under wood lintels to left. South gable has blocked door opening with similar surround to that of the main front. Datestone in gable to left of main front. Interior: has early C18 staircase with turned balustrade. Kitchen has remains of open fireplace with bressumer. First floor room centre of main front has reset C17 panelling. Room to rig ireplace with bolection moulded surround. (Ecton: Bertram Knight n.d.).

{3} Undated photo;

{4} Although there was only one manor in 1086, this was later divided to form at least three. The main manor was held by the Montgomery family, the Newhall Manor was held by Warden Abbey, and a third was held by the Treshams. Newhall was on the site of the present Manor Farm in High Street.

<1> Historical Notes, Ecton Parish Records, (unchecked) (Notes). SNN108765.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 18/92 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G05 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100394.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Ecton (Photographs). SNN111810.

<4> 2003, Architectural plans for a barn conversion at Manor Farm, High Street, Ecton, (unchecked) (Plan). SNN108766.

<5> Foard G., 1993, Ecton: Its Lost Village and Landscape Park, p.338+346 (checked) (Article). SNN54811.

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Dec 22 2023 9:23AM