Description

TL 25 NW CROXTON HIGH STREET
(West Side)

5/115 The Manor House
31. 8.62

GV II

Manor house. Late C15 or early C16. Timber-frame exposed and plastered with
C17 red brick plinth and walls. C19 brick casing to rear. Plain tile roofs
with pantiles to rear elevations. One storey and attic hall range with
jettied cross wings of two storeys. East cross wing jetty underbuilt and
south gable wall and end stack rebuilt in C17 red brick. Tall C17 red brick
stack to right hand of hall with four diagonal shafts. Four-panelled C19
door in cross passage position, three ground floor and four first floor
casement windows of various sizes. Interior: crown-post roofs to crosswings
with slender braces to collar purlins, smoke blackened side purl in roof with
wide windbraces in each bay of hall, open truss with deep hollow-chamfered
arched braces, roll-moulded and embattled cornice. Service doors and parlour
door with four-centred arches. Inserted C17 ceiling beams to hall.
Inglenook hearths relined. Two mullioned windows in crosswings, evidence for
original oriel windows.

RCHM West Cambs. p69, mon.6
VCH, Vol. V, p36

Listing NGR: TL2489459698

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26420085

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