Orleton Manor

Heritage listing

Details SO 46 NE ORLETON CP - 3/84 Orleton Manor 11.6.59 - II* Manor house. Late C16 to early C17, with some mid-C19 and early C20 alterations, restored late C20. Timber-frame with rendered infill on rubble plinth under slate roof. U-plan, hall ranged aligned north-east/ south-west. Cross-wings projecting to south-east. Cross-passage at south end of hall entered through porch, the south door blocked, oriel to north end of hall. Chimney stack in middle of north cross-wing and laterally placed on south wall of other wing. North-west front of two storeys, the cross-wing to left gabled, to right roof returned. To left of hall range a two-storey semi-octagonal bay window, to left a two-storey gabled porch. One plus three plus two windows, a 3-light casement to left, the bay with a 2-light casement to each side, a 2-light casement, a 4-light mullioned and transomed window in porch, then a 3-light and a 4-light casement. The last three windows have C17 ovolo moulded windows. Ground floor fenestration similar, the lower part of the bay restored mid-C20 when it was a porch. Entrance has a boarded door on strap hinges within a moulded architrave. Framing is close-studded with mid-rail, left-hand gable has two collars and studding. Interior the south room of the north cross-wing has re-set C17 panelling. The north wall has been moved about one metre south, leaving the fireplace in a cupboard. The room above has re-set panelling with a frieze. The fireplace has moulded stone jambs and four-centred head. Painted above it is an ogee head and terminal with repainted inscription: "Honner Him in hart and souffred on the crosse for thee and worship him". The hall has exposed moulded ceiling beams. Upstairs over the hall is a passageway, all the doorways having moulded architraves. (RCHM,

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.