Description

TL 4055 BARTON SCHOOL LANE
Manor Farmhouse
(formerly listed as
University)
Farmhouse
12/16
31.8.62 II*


GV

House. Early C17. Timber-framed and roughcast rendered with tiled roof and
bargeboarding to crosswing gable end with shaped pendants to apices.
Original red brick stack, internal, with four grouped shafts. Side stack to
east crosswing. Double-ended hall-house, with entry in hall range to lobby
entry. One window to each of two storeys in hall range. Crosswings are-
jettied and each has two similar modern three-light casements at first and
ground storeys. At the front and adjoining the house are two garden walls.
Late C17. Red brick on plinth with gabled coping and sawtooth cornice.
Interior: inspection of the roof may reveal earlier origins of an open
hall. There is a fine contemporary plaster ceiling in a ground floor room of
the west crosswing. Moulded ribs in geometric pattern enriched with
fleur-de-lis and roses. In two bays divided by a plaster main beam similarly
decorated. A first floor room retains an original clunch fireplace with four
centred arch in square head. The spandrels with cusped tracery. on a moated
site.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon.(2)Plates 47 and 85.

Listing NGR: TL4090955761

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550407

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)