Listed Building: MANOR HOUSE (278825)

TM 03 NE CAPEL ST MARY OLD LONDON ROAD 3/51 Manor House GV II House. C15/C16 or earlier origin with later alterations and additions. C19 restorations. Timber framed and plastered with some C19 brickwork. Red plain tiled roofs. Off centre left chimney stack with attached shafts to central hall, similar stack to right crosswing, rear external stack to left crosswing return, central forward stack and single storey bakeoven to left extension. One storey and attics central hall, 2 storey right and left gabled crosswings and left forward wing. C19 barge boards to crosswing gables, 2 gabled dormers to hall and gabled porch. 1:2:1 window range of various vertically sliding sashes to main ranges. The C15/C16 left wing was converted into a C19 dairy and has a louvred window to right of the bake oven and a horizontal sliding sash window over, loft door to left return and a vertically sliding sash window to right return. C19 gabled porch to hall, segmental archway, C20 door. Rear walls, C19 red brick faced with circular iron tie plates. Plaster and batten decoration to gables. A small rear gable is possibly the original stair turret. Much of the original frame is concealed, but heavy chamfered ceiling and bridging joists are exposed in the main rooms. There is a simple 2 armed crown post roof, supported by an arch braced cambered tie beam in the left crosswing. Halved and bridled top plate scarf to rear wall. A heavy bridging joist supported by a moulded jowled storey post in the kitchen, probably supporting the inserted hall ceiling. The left wing still retains a C19 dairy with brick floor, bake oven and meat hooks on ceiling beams. Halved and bridled top plate scarf, arched wall braces. Listing NGR: TM0860337152