Description

On the entry for:
TL 3947 SHEPRETH FROG END
(west side)

21/323 No 2 (Manor Farmhouse)

II

The address shall be amended to read:
FROG END
(west side)

No 2, LORD'S MANOR
(formerly listed as
Manor Farmhouse)
The description shall be amended to read:

House. Mid C19. Timber framed, roughcast-rendered on brick plinth. Tiled
roofs. Double range plan. Two storeys. Three window range of cross frame
casements. Central doorway in gabled porch, with four-centred outer arch
with carved spandrels probably C19. The inner archway is also four-centred
again with carved spandrels, one with a collared lion sitting, partly
late C16. The door itself is of a similar date, six panels with cover strips
and original iron fittings including the iron knocker in the form of a
closed hand. Inside. One ground floor room has a very fine early C16 ceiling
beam of deeply hollow and roll moulded profile. One end of the beam is
continued into the wall as a post, the moulding also continuous. The outer
end terminates in a corbel finely carved with naturalistic foliage.and a
tripping cockerel. This room is also lined with early C17 square sunk panelling,
with a fine contemporary fireplace. This fireplace has an overmantel in
three bays divided by paired Doric columns with entablature of strapwork,
frieze and dentil cornice on enriched brackets. Below the modern brick
hearth is flanked by strapwork pilasters. Possibly these features came from
the former manor house on the site which was owned and enlarged by John
Layer (d.1641) the antiquarian.
Pevsner: Buildings of England p.454
R.C.H.M: Record Card 1949
V.C.H: Cambs Vol 5,p253
Dr W M Palmer: Chatteris Manor and John Rayner Cambs & Hunts Society Excursion
1922 Cambs, c. 443.4
Dr W M Palmer: John Layer of Shepreth (1935)

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TL 3947 SHEPRETH FROG END
(West side)

21/323 No. 2 (Manor
Farmhouse)

II

House. Mid C19. Timber framed, roughcast rendered on brick plinth. Tiled
roofs. Plan of two contemporary, parallel and adjoining ranges. Two
storeys. Three window- range of cross-frame casements. Central doorway in
gabled porch, brick with four centred outer arch. The inner archway is also
four centred and the head of the arch is late C16 or early C17, reset. The
arch is moulded and the spandrels are carved, one with a collared lion
sitting. The door is of similar date. Six panels with cover strips and
original iron fittings including the iron knocker in the form of a closed
hand. Inside: Two ground floor rooms have particularly fine C16 and early
C17 overmantels and beams reset from another house. This was possibly the
manor house on the site, which was owned and enlarged by John Layer (d.1641),
the antiquarian. One room has a fine early C16 ceiling of deeply hollow and
roll moulded joists and main beams. One end of the main beam is continued
into the wall as a post, the moulding also continuous. The outer end
terminates in a corbel finely carved with naturalistic foil age and a tripping
cockerel. This may refer to Bishop Alcock, Bishop of Ely in late C15.
Another reference may be to Christ's College, Cambridge. The overmantel is
early C17 and in three bays divided by paired Doric columns with entablature
of strapwork frieze and dentil cornice on enriched brackets. Below, the
modern hearth is flanked by strapwork pilasters. The room is lined with
early C17 square sunk panelling. Another room at ground floor has an
overmantel, also early C17. The mantelpiece is carried on four pairs of
rustic Atlantes and caryatids with panels of naturalistic foliage between.
The overmantel is in three rectangular bays divided by paired Doric columns,
the outer bays have round headed blind arcading and the centre bay a raised
square panel, with central carved boss and raised border of gadrooning and
foliate ornament. The entablature to the overmantel has frieze of jewelled
ornament, and enriched brackets supporting a modillion cornice.

Pevsner: Buildings of England p.454
V.C.H.: Cambs. Vol. 5. p.253
R.C.H.M: Record card (1949
Dr. U.M. Palmer: Chatteris Manor and John Rayner. Cambs. and Hunts.
Society Excursion 1922. Cambs. c.443.4
Dr. W.M. Palmer: John Layer of Shepreth (1935)

Listing NGR: TL3934047406

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26615782

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