Painsford Manor

Heritage listing

Details ASHPRINGTON S PAINSFORD 6/44 Painsford Manor 11.11.52 GV II* House, now a farmhouse, formerly the seat of the Kellands. Probably late C16 or early C17, possibly incorporating earlier fabric; remodelled in late C17 for John Kelland, and remodelled again in circa late C18 and/or early C19. Dressed slate rubble with stuccoed front wall. Main roof is of slates with gabled ends, asbestos slate at the front; the section set back at the left has a lower slate hipped roof and the rear wing has a catslide roof. Axial and gable gable end stacks with brick shafts of late C18 or early C19 except for the right had shaft which appears to be later C19. Plan: The present house has a tall 2 storey main range of 4-room plan facing south with a cross-passage between the 2 centre rooms; the 2 right hand east rooms are relatively small and have an axial partition at the back providing a stairhall and entrance lobby behind. The room set back slightly at the left hand west end has a lower floor level and high ceiling. To the south west at the front of the left hand room there is the remains of a long wing at right angles with an open-fronted loggia on the ground floor, the first floor and roof having been removed. Behind the cross-passage and room to left of centre there is a short 2-storey wing of 2 rooms width, the left hand room containing the back stairs. To the left of this rear wing there is a stone vaulted cellar under the higher ground level behind the left end room of the main range. Development: The chapel (qv). was licensed in 1400 and there must have been a house here in the C15 but what survives is probably mainly late C16 or early C17 fabric in a house which was remodelled in the late C17, and remodelled again and probably reduced in late C18 and/or early C19. The late C

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.