Description

FAWLER MAIN STREET
SP3717 (North-east side)
14/25 The Manor House

- II

Farmhouse, now house. Mid-to-late C17 with late C18 or early C19 addition and
C20 alterations. Coursed Iimestone rubble and some ironstone, with stone
dressings. Stone slate roof. T-plan. Three storeys with 2-storey wing to front.
Stone ridge stack to right with chamfered weathering and external stone end
stack to left with chamfered offsets and C20 brick top stage. Three gabled
dormers with 2-light small-paned wooden casements. Three-window front; C19 and
C20 small-paned casements, some with stone cills. Later gabled wing projecting
at right angles off-centre to left: integral lateral stone stack to right with
pitched-roofed link to attic; 2-light casement to each floor with flat stone
arch and stone cill, and one-light attic casement. Six-panelled door to main
range, in left-hand angle of wing, with C20 lean-to stone porch. The main
entrance to the house was formerly by a first floor door off-centre to right,
approached by a flight of wooden steps up the side of the wing (see old
photograph kept in house). The right-hand ground floor casement is a C20
insertion. Right-hand gable end with 2-light casement to first and second floor.
Former outbuilding adjoining to left, eaves raised and fenestrated in the C20.
Interior: principal rooms to first floor. Left-hand first-floor room: C17
moulded stone fireplace with bar stops. Moulded plaster cornice. Left-hand
second-floor rood: C17 moulded stone fireplace with bar stops. Pair of
deep-chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops.

Listing NGR: SP3716317090

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26304854

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)