Description

SO 75 NW KNIGHTWICK CP -

1/35 Manor House
12/11/51
-

- II*

Farmhouse. Early C18. Brick with hipped, tiled roof. 2 storeys
and platt band; 7 bays, 2:3:2, with 4 brick pilasters, one at each
end and at main bay divisions; windows are 18-pane sashes with
gauged flat heads except for 2 end bays to right where upper left
window is blocked and 2 ground floor windows which have a wooden mullion
and 2 transomes; there is a small wooden sign with DAIRY painted on it
above the right ground floor window; central half-glazed, panelled double
doors recessed within moulded architrave and canopy with simple moulded
detail. Brick stacks to ridge above pilasters to central 3 bays.
Interior Hall fireplace has late C17 carved oak panelled chimney-piece;
Parlour has Jacobean panelling with fluted frieze with early C18 aedicule
in south wall with painting of 4 nude children at back of recess, plaster
ceiling of four deep panels with moulded edges, and late C17 carved oak
chimneypiece; part of early C18 dog-legged stair with a moulded handrail
and turned balusters survives above first floor level. The farmhouse is
built upon the sandstone cellars of a C17 or earlier building; three 2-
light mullioned cellar windows survive in the south elevation.

Listing NGR: SO7216855061

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547793

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)