Baldwin Manor

Heritage listing

Details TL 5663 15/163 1.12.1951 SWAFFHAM PRIOR HIGH STREET (West Side) No 80 Baldwin Manor (formerly listed as Baldwin Manor) II* Manor house, c1500 extended by one bay to the South in early-mid C16 and again in C17 by the addition of a kitchen wing at the rear. The parlour of the original house was demolished before 1815. Timber-framing, exposed, on a brick plinth, with plain tiled roof, hipped to the South West. The original stack at the North East gable end would have been internal. It is of red brick, with some clunch. In plan the house was of a single range of four or five bays which have now been reduced to three. The early-mid C16 addition is of one bay. Two storeys. The first floor is jettied and the jetty beam, which has carved leaf ornament, is carried on joists laid flat, shaped jetty brackets, and embattled pilasters now mostly mutilated. The two brackets flanking the doorway to the cross-passage are carved with devices of the Baldwin family, as are the spandrels to the four-centred arch to the doorway. The fenestration is all later, probably late C17 or early C18, with cross-frame casements at ground floor, and much original glass. However at first floor the original sills to the c1500 windows are preserved. In the rear wall there are two C16 windows one of four ogee lights with pierced trefoil tracery to heads, and another of seven lights with hollow moulded mullions. The early-mid C16 addition is similar to the original house. It is timber-framed and jettied at first floor. It also has a moulded jetty beam and joists carried on shaped brackets with embattled pilasters, now mutilated. The jetty plate, however, is embattled. There is curved or cranked downward bracing from the posts to the jetty beam. The C17 kitchen bay adjoins this bay at the rear. Timbe

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.