Listed Building: MANOR FARM HOUSE (281278)

TL 96 NW THURSTON - 1/173 Manor Farm House - II and the entry shall be amended to read: TL 96 NW THURSTON - 1/173 Manor Farm House - 11.1.91 II* (star) THURSTON TL 96 NW MANOR FARM HOUSE 1/173 II Estate Farmhouse. 1876 by Philip Webb with minor late C20 alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond. Steeply pitched red pantile hipped roof with deep sprocketed eaves and wooden balustrade at apex. Symmetrically arranged brick axial stacks. Plan: Double depth square plan with entrance hall, staircase behind the right hand room and single storey service wing around small yard at the back. 'Queen Anne' domestic revival style. 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay south front. Narrow 8-pane sashes on ground floor with segmental relieving arches and herringbone brickwork in tympanae. 2 and 3-light casements on first floor with glazing bars. Central recessed porch with wide segmental brick arch in 4 arches on splayed jambs with plain polygonal brick capitals; niches inside porch with rubbled brick shell canopies and wooden seats; glazed and- panelled door and rectangular overlight. Pair of central axial stacks at front clasping flat roof dormer. Deep corbelled brick stringcourse at first floor level around house. Right hand east return has canted bay on left of ground floor and hipped dormer. Left hand west side has late C20 conservatory; Rear and sides all have similar sashes on ground floor and casements on first floor to those at front. Single storey service wing at rear with hipped pantile roof which is carried down on east side over verandah with wooden posts. Interior: most of the original joinery survives including open-well stick baluster staircase with ball finials to the newels; single bolection chimneypieces with shelves on first floor and attic. The ground floor chimney pieces are replacements. Large kitchen fireplace with segmental arch and kitchen dresser. Good scullery-back kitchen fireplace, its high lintel jettied out on corbelled jambs and with oven. Note: Manor Farmhouse was originally the home farm of the Nether Hall estate. Source: Information supplied by S.R. Kirk Listing NGR: TL9272265642