Description

TL 2755 GREAT GRANSDEN CHURCH STREET
(South Side)

15/34 Rippington Manor
24.10.51

GV II*

Originally the manor farmhouse, C16 timber framed hall and
double crosswing, cased in mid C17 local brick. Plain tile
roofs. To rear of hall and outer walls of crosswings are three
iron-stone side stacks with off-sets, surmounted by later brick
shafts. North-east facade; hall range two storeys, crosswings
two storeys with garrets. High brick plinth and band between
floors common to all ranges. Slightly projecting bay to left
hand of hall range has one first floor, C19 casement window with
glazing bars and an early C18 moulded brick string and flat
gauged brick arch above ground floor three-light casement window
with leaded-lights and transome. Similar ground floor window to
right hand and two without transomes at both floor levels to
right hand. C17 oak studded door to right of centre flanked by
reduced C18 brick side stack. Gables to crosswing both similar
with windows at each floor level. Left-hand gable has one fixed
three-light garret window and two, three-light casement windows
in original openings with wooden lintels and chamfered jambs.
The jambs of the later casement windows in right-hand gable
slightly altered. Interior. The hall has chamfered ceiling
beams and original stone chimney piece with four-centred arch
and stop-moulded jambs; similar hearth in north-west wing and
C17 panelling. Two C17 battened doors, C17 balustrade to part
of staircase. Early C18 panelling to south-east wing. Exposed
timber frame at first floor.
RCHM, p 121, mon. (4).
History of Great Gransden. 1892.

Listing NGR: TL2715455605

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17544198

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)