Description

TL 67 SE FRECKENHAM CHURCH LANE

3/24 Manor House
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- II*

House, formerly manor house, late C17 with rear extension of 1934. 4 windows;
2 storeys and attics. Pink/buff brick with double moulded string at 1st floor,
and parapet gables. Plaintiled roof with external end chimneys of pink brick,
recapped C19 in gault brick; another external C17 chimney to rear with sunk
panel in shaft. Gabled C19 dormers with rendered cheeks and small-pane
casements. 3-light wdoden windows of C18 and C19, without lintels; metal
casements with leaded lights, some containing crown glass. Early C20 6-
panelled entrance door with flat canopy on brackets. In a rear contemporary
timber-framed and plastered wing is a fine C17 staircase of pine; heavy
panelled newels with drop-finials, and urn balusters. A ground floor room has
complete late C17 decoration, with full moulded panelling and cornice,
fireplace-surround and 2-panelled doors with broad shouldered architraves. A
1st floor room is fully panelled with wainscotting of a plainer C17 type. Other
rooms have less-complete C17 and C18 joinery. A rear service range to left,
formerly of one storey, was raised to 2 storeys and extended 1934.

Listing NGR: TL6674771807

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534807

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)