Building record 1995/5/1 - Manor House, Manor Road

Early 18th-century manor house.

{1} Shown as No.25 Manor Road on Ordnance Survey map. Manor house. Early C18th. Lias ashlar with original plain-tile and slate roofs. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys with attic. Entrance front of 3-window range. Central ashlar porch has pilasters at corners, simple cornice and flat roof. 6-panel door with glazed top lights and arch head fanlight. Sash windows with glazing bars under gauged stone arches. Flat string course between floors. Moulded ashlar cornice and gabled roof dormers with casement windows. Hipped roof with brick stacks at ridge. Early C19th one-bay extension to left has similar first floor window and hipped slate roof. Elevation to right of entrance front is similar of 2-window range with blank window to first floor left. Garden front to rear of entrance front is also similar: 3-window range with central C19th French windows with margin lights. Early C19th extension to right has 2 narrow sash windows with glazing bars. Interior: entrance hall has C18th style staircase altered C20th. Some 6-panelled doors and panelled window reveals.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 16/247 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Photographs of buildings in Mears Ashby (Photographs). SNN112861.

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