Description

NORTH CERNEY NORTH CERNEY VILLAGE
SP01 075 -
02 075
16/221 Manor Farm
(formerly listed as
4.2.52 North Cerney Farmhouse)

GV II

Large House. C18, extended late C18 - early C19 and C20. Thinly-
bedded roughly squared and dressed limestone with rusticated
quoins; mostly stone slate roofing; concrete tile and some slate at
rear; stacks covered with incised render. Rectangular plan to main
body with a stairs projection off-centre left at the rear; slate-
roofed extension to one side of the stairs projection; C18
extension on the opposite side (raised in height and given a flat
roof C20); late C18 - early C19 extension to the north gable end of
the main body. Two storeys and attic; extension: 2 storeys.
Symmetrical 2:3:2-windowed facade to the main body with later 3-
windowed extension to the left. All windows 12-pane sashes with
plain architraves; keystones and moulded sills. Blind window
(painted to imitate a sash window) upper right. Band immediately
above the ground and first floor windows. The band over the first
floor windows is interrupted by a segmental pediment over the
central window. Central double part-glazed doors with glazing
bars, triple keystone and rusticated quoins. Three hipped roof
dormers to attic; tripartite sash at the centre; 12-pane sash to
the right; blind 12-pane sash to the left. Fenestration to the
ground and first floors of the south gable end similar to that of
the garden front but with modillion eaves cornice and a Diocletian
eaves dormer with a dressed stone architrave. Single sash window
to first floor of the stairs projection and a small 6-pane sash
with a dressed stone surround keystone and imposts to the gable.
Three-windowed west front to the extension with sash windows and
bands matching those of the west front of the main body.
Segmental-headed 2 and 3-light window casements to the north gable
end: C19 four-panelled door with the upper two panels glazed and a
plain glass fanlight off-centre left. Axial stacks. hipped roof
to C18 range and late C18 - early C19 extension.
Interior retains its original C18 open-well staircase with turned
balusters, wreathed handrail and decorative brackets to the risers.
Panelled room to the ground floor has bolection moulded fireplace;
fireplace with fluted columns and a frieze with a plaque with
pastoral scene at the centre and festoons either side.

Listing NGR: SP0202707915

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26382587

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)