NHER 13254 (Building record) - Manor Farmhouse (formerly Dairy Farmhouse), Norwich Road

Formerly known as Dairy Farm.

Unusual 16th century house and barn. Perhaps once a manor.
See notes in file.
E. Rose (NAU), October 1990.

Described by (S1) it as very fine late 16th house. Timber frame, plastered with pargetting on front, and brick plinth. Thatched roof with gabled ends, ends are red brick with stepped gables with chimney stacks, the west end stack has lozenge-shaped flues. Two storeys and attic. Central three storey stair tower with exposed timber framing in diminishing stages the top stage gabled. Wing on southeast 17th century plastered, steep pantile roof with gabled ends, brick chimney stack off centre.
To southwest is a 17th or 18th century timber framed barn. Plastered. Thatched roof with gabled ends. Large double door to wagon entrance at centre. Left and right projecting cart shed wings with low pantile roofs with stepped gable ends.
For further details see listed description.
D. Robertson (NLA), 7 July 2006.

February 2008. Building Survey.
The house appears to contain three or more building phases. The first phase has been identified as the west section of the house. Two service doorways to the east, and a grand south window may suggest that this was the hall to a building that has now been demolished. The kitchen or backhouse may have been added as a replacement to the demolished building, before the parlour cross-wing was constructed. The first floor north tie beam has a dendrochronology felling date of 1594/95.
See report (S2) for further details.
H. White, (NLA), 13 October 2009