Old Ramerick Manor

Heritage listing

Details ICKLEFORD BEDFORD ROAD TL 13 SE (East side) 2/41 Old Ramerick Manor 9.6.52 - II* Manor house, now a farmhouse. Late medieval former open hall house incorporated in later additions. C16 E crosswing; a farmhouse by 1625; hall floored in stages in C17; late C17 NE wing (a granary on 1st floor); W front bay, staircase wing at rear, and regular brick front to house early C18. NW service wing has date 'RE/1829' cut over entrance. Restored 1953-4. Presumably timber framed (suggested by record of breaking down part of wall during seizure by Lord Cobham in 1530), NE wing of clunch masonry with red brick dressings and independent timber supporting structure to 1st floor granary, front of dark red brick with some blue bricks and lighter red brick dressings, red brick to NW wing, roughcast exterior to rear stair wing. Steep old red tile roofs, hipped with zig-zag tile patterning to front, extending as catslide over rear outshut, and hipped on NW wing. A large 2-storeys house about 400M to E of main road standing at N of farmstead facing S on a site still moated on 2 sides. Near symmetrical S front has 1st floor windows grouped 2:3:2, central 6-panels moulded door in Doric pilastered surround with flat entablature, corresponding windows on ground floor but LH pair replaced c.1900 by rectangular brick bay with 3 sash windows with 8/1 panes and parapet. This front has a projecting band at eaves level below the parapet, and flush-box sash windows with flat gauged arches and 6/6 panes. Large chimney with triangular pilaster strip to RH of door. Similar front to E end. 2-storeys and attic NE wing has gable parapets on corbelled brick kneelers and roughcast gable triangle. Chimney inserted in early C19 to serve farm office in base. 2-storeys NW service wing faces W with 2 windows

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.