Description

WISTANSTOW

SO48NE AFFCOT
1943-1/7/130 Affcot Manor
15/03/74

II

Manor house. C16 or earlier, with C18 and C19 additions.
Sandstone rubble; timber-frame and plaster; roughcast and
painted brick; plain tile roof; rubble stack with spurred
brick shafts and caps, to angle of cross-wing; early C20 brick
ridge stack, on rubble base, to centre.
PLAN: L-shaped on plan, with C18 or C19 wings to north and to
east.
EXTERIOR: west front: 2 storeys and cellar; single-storey and
attic; scattered fenestration; cross-wing to south has
inserted rubble panel to ground floor; rubble with
chevron-braced framing over, with 4-light window with 2 early
and 2 C20 panels of lattice glazing, over chamfered,
cavetto-moulded wall plate; jettied tie beam with moulding and
Tudor rose flanked by stylized lions, to gable with cusped
concave lozenge bracing, and carved bargeboards and later
finial.
Range to left has gabled half-dormer with C19 4-light casement
over early C19 8/8 sash under gauged brick flat arch; C20
fenestration and entrance to left, with C19 light to gable.
Right returned side: roughcast; early C19 8/8 sash to ground
floor, with two 6/6 sashes over, and scalloped moulded
bargeboards with finial.
Early C19 rear wing with 2 tiers of 8/8 sashes (late C19 to
first floor) and similar bargeboards; right returned side has
part-glazed 6-panel door and swagged fanlight under
semi-circular arch, in late C19 brick porch with hipped plain
tile pentice roof; scattered C19 fenestration, and 6-panel
door with panelled reveals, in simple doorcase, to range to
right; further single-storey wing with brick end stack.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO4529186354

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559907

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings