Lord's Manor

Heritage listing

Details On the entry for: TL 3947 SHEPRETH FROG END (west side) 21/323 No 2 (Manor Farmhouse) II The address shall be amended to read: FROG END (west side) No 2, LORD'S MANOR (formerly listed as Manor Farmhouse) The description shall be amended to read: House. Mid C19. Timber framed, roughcast-rendered on brick plinth. Tiled roofs. Double range plan. Two storeys. Three window range of cross frame casements. Central doorway in gabled porch, with four-centred outer arch with carved spandrels probably C19. The inner archway is also four-centred again with carved spandrels, one with a collared lion sitting, partly late C16. The door itself is of a similar date, six panels with cover strips and original iron fittings including the iron knocker in the form of a closed hand. Inside. One ground floor room has a very fine early C16 ceiling beam of deeply hollow and roll moulded profile. One end of the beam is continued into the wall as a post, the moulding also continuous. The outer end terminates in a corbel finely carved with naturalistic foliage.and a tripping cockerel. This room is also lined with early C17 square sunk panelling, with a fine contemporary fireplace. This fireplace has an overmantel in three bays divided by paired Doric columns with entablature of strapwork, frieze and dentil cornice on enriched brackets. Below the modern brick hearth is flanked by strapwork pilasters. Possibly these features came from the former manor house on the site which was owned and enlarged by John Layer (d.1641) the antiquarian. Pevsner: Buildings of England p.454 R.C.H.M: Record Card 1949 V.C.H: Cambs Vol 5,p253 Dr W M Palmer: Chatteris Manor and John Rayner Cambs & Hunts Society Excursion 1922 Cambs, c. 443.4 Dr W M Palmer: John Layer of Shepreth (1935) -----------------------------

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.