WILLIMONTSWICK FARMHOUSE - List Entry

  • Description

    Manor House, C16 probably incorporating earlier fabric, largely rebuilt c,1900. Coursed rubble, stone dressings, slate roofs. Double-ended hall-house plan, with narrow towers at ends of wings. Hall block and west wing rebuilt c.1900 in neo- Tudor style, retaining original north and south doors to screens passage. Front (north) door has elliptical arch under square head with hoodmould, partly renewed.....The original arrangement of a central block flanked by 4 slender towers, c.f. Farnhill House, North Yorkshire, probably derives from that seen on a grander scale at Langley Castle. The foundations of the west wing towers were seen early in the C20 when a tennis court was constructed....
  • Owner

    Historic England
  • Source

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    Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1042497
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    Added by: Simon Cotterill
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