Description

SWAFFHAM

TF8209 NORWICH ROAD
809-1/6/31 (East side)
17/01/73 Manor House including attached
service range to east
(Formerly Listed as:
MANGATE STREET
(North side)
Manor House)

II*

House, now house and 2 flats. c1740 with later extensions. Red
brick with rendered dressings. Slate and pantiled roofs.
EXTERIOR: west front of 2 storeys and dormer attic. 7-window
range. Rendered rusticated quoins. Central C20 double glazed
doors under pediment on scrolled consoles. One tall fixed
window with glazing bars either side lighting central hall. 2
2/2 unhorned sashes each side beyond these, with gauged
skewback arches. First-floor centre window is blind. Left-hand
2 windows are C20 casements, remainder are sashes as before.
Brick modillion eaves cornice. Hipped roof with one
segment-headed dormer fitted with a 3/3 horned sash. 2 ridge
stacks.
Early C19 2-storey extension to south. 2-window range, with
tall French doors to ground floor, sashes to upper floor
leading to wrought-iron balcony. Hipped roof with one stack on
east and west wall planes.
2-storey extension to east is of 1930s. Rear service range of
late C19: 2 storeys, 6-window range, red brick, slate hipped
roof. Fenestration of 2/2 unhorned sashes. Ridge stack.
2-storey stable range extends further east. Flint and red
brick, pantiled roof. 2 C20 garage doors and mixed
fenestration. Gabled roof.
INTERIOR: hall has screen of 2 Roman Doric columns and
pilasters. Late C19 staircase with cast-iron balustrade.
Raised oval roof light supported on consoles. 2 principal
ground-floor rooms with complete large-framed panelling and
moulded cornices. Shell cupboard in south room. 2 principal
bedrooms immediately above have associated dressing rooms.
Partial large-framed panelling to north pair of rooms and also
on staircase upper landing. Complete large-framed fielded
panelling to south pair of rooms. C19 roof of principals,
collars and one tier of windbraces.

Listing NGR: TF8241909030

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553722

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)