Description

BRAITHWELL GREAVES SIKE LANE
SK59SW (north side),
Micklebring

8/1 No 16 (Manor House)

- II

Farmhouse. Dated 'E F D/l677 ; some alterations. Magnesian limestone
rubble, concrete pantile and Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with partial cellar
and attics; 3 windows to 1st floor; wing to rear left. Large quoins.
Central C20 part-glazed door in moulded, quoined surround with deep lintel
decorated by line carving of plumes about a shield with date and initials;
dripstone. Flanking bays have chamfered 3-light mullioned windows with
concrete surrounds. 1st floor: original 2-light double-chamfered window with
dripstone flanked by 2-light windows with concrete surrounds and mullions.
Later attic windows over outer bays have projecting sills and wooden
casements. Ashlar gable copings; brick end stacks. Gabled wing set back on
left has C20 porch in angle beneath an original 2-light double-chamfered,
mullioned window with dripstone. Rear: basement to left originally lit by
two 3-light double-chamfered, mullioned windows under dripstones (a doorway
now inserted through the left-hand window); windows in same style and of 2, 1
and 2 lights to ground and 1st floors (that to ground-floor left altered).
Side windows of wing all altered.
Interior: chamfered, segmentally-arched ashlar fireplace backing onto left
gable; another small ashlar fireplace to lst-floor right. Old stud
partitioning around the staircase. Altered roof with renewed principal
rafters on older tie beans.

Listing NGR: SK5163994798

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444359

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (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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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)