Manor Cottage Tetcott Barton Tetcott Manor

Heritage listing

Details SX 39NW TETCOTT TETCOTT 2/62 Tetcott Manor, Tetcott 4.12.51 Barton and Manor Cottage GV (formally listed as Old Tetcott House) II* The previous description shall be amended to read: SX 39 NW TETCOTT TETCOTT 2/62 Tetcott Manor, Tetcott Barton and Manor Cottage 4.12 .51 (formally listed as Old Tetcott House) GV II* Manor house sub-divided into 3 occupations. C16 and C17 with substantial C18, C19 and C20 alterations. Stone rubble with granite dressings, some walls Flemish bond brick, scantle slate roofs hipped and gabled, stone and brick chimneys, some early crested ridge tiles. A complex house with several building phases which are not easy to distinguish owing to the re-siting of external features and the re-use of old materials. A small central courtyard is surrounded by 4 irregular picturesque ranges: the core of the west range may be an early hall range although there is little evidence of the early plan, and considerable piecemeal addition and alteration, mostly of the C18. The single depth through passage south range has a re-sited datestone of 1603 and a 2-storey porch, it may have been a service wing upgraded in the mid and late C17, the date of a fine first floor room with panelling and a plaster ceiling is circa late C17. It was later in agricultural use, at least in part. The 2-storey porch appears to post-date one of the sash windows of the south range and is likely to have been rebuilt or to be an antiquarian addition of the C19 or C20, but it may genuinely C17. The east range contains a fine first floor 'court room' with late C17 and early C18 plasterwork. The north range is mostly brick and incorporates a double-depth block that could be late C17, or, alternatively, might represent the re-use of early brick, or it could well be contemporary with the

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.