Description

SK 77 NE RAMPTON TORKSEY STREET
(north side)

1/63 Manor Farmhouse
and attached
outbuilding and
1.2.67 wall

G.V. II

Farmhouse and attached outbuilding and walls. Early C18. Red
brick and ashlar. Slate roof with raised ashlar coped gables and
kneelers. 4 red brick gable stacks. Raised eaves band. Set on
an ashlar plinth with moulded band over. Double range plan. 2
storeys plus garrets, 5 bays. With moulded red brick first floor
band. Central doorway, the top 2 panels of the 6 panel door
being glazed, with traceried overlight, ashlar architrave and
cornice hood supported on consoles. Either side are 2 glazing
bar sashes with flush wedge lintels and keystones. Above are 5
similar sashes and lintels. Attached to the rear right is a
single storey red brick and pantile 4 bay outbuilding with single
red brick ridge stack and single similar stack to the front
right. Dentil eaves. Set on an ashlar plinth. Doorway with
plank door, to the right is a single glazing bar Yorkshire sash,
a doorway with plank door and further right a similar, smaller
sash. To the right is a lower wing with doorway with plank door.
Attached to the front right is a red brick wall with ashlar
coping, this extends for 7 metres and is flanked at either end by
single coped piers. The wall then drops down and extends
southwards for 30 metres, being buttressed and broken by a
gateway at the north end. It rises to meet a similar pier with
raised and shaped coping, turns at a right angle and continues
west on a coursed rubble and brick plinth with chamfered ashlar
coping for 22 metres, being broken by a now blocked gateway with
raised and shaped ashlar coping simulating piers. At the west
end it rises to a similar pier with attached taller coped pier
with shaped ashlar finial and then turns northwards for 6 metres
terminating in the wall of the C16 gateway. Interior has a
dogleg close string staircase with turned balusters, cut
spandrels and moulded handrail.

Listing NGR: SK7998678593

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26527317

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)