Manor Cottage The Manor

Heritage listing

Details BROADWAY CP GOOSE LANE ST3215 The Manor and Manor Cottage 11/27 (formerly listed as Manor Farm House, South Street) 4.2.58 - II Farmhouse, now divided into 2 dwellings. Possibly late medieval, ceiled and refenestrated late C16-early C17, heavily restored early 1970's. Random rubble chert stone, partially roughcast, thatched roofs, external stack north gable end, stone stack north-west gable end. Plan: possibly open hall house lying south-north with roughly coeval north-west kitchen wing and south east wing now featureless, later ceiled to 3-cell and cross passage, single storey C20 porch on front; south range now Manor Cottage, rest known as The Manor, Fist front: one an a half storeys, 1:3 bays, gable end of south-east wing projecting left with cambered lintels to C20 windows, gabled dormers to main block with windows rising iron eaves, 2 to left largely rebuilt with C20 3-light windows, coped verges to taller right hand dormer with 4-light hollow chamfered stone mullioned window below hoodmould, ground floor left small C20 window beside C20 thatched porch, Tudor-arch held style doorframe with incised spandrels, C20 3-light window to right, 4-light hollow chamfered mullioned window below hoodmould to right. Right return: north gable end ground floor left C20 window, small glazed opening first floor right, 2-bay wing beyond. C20 fenestration on south and west fronts. Interior not seen, unlikely that much remains of the features referred to in the 1972 VAG report, though the 2 pairs of jointed crick trusses in the north-west wing, single pair in the south-east wing and another to left of the through passage possibly remain. The plank and muntin screen to left of the cross passage with 2 shouldered doorframes is said to have been re-erected elsewhere in the house,

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.