Monument record 1260/1 - Manor Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 59087 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse. c.1670. Plum English garden wall bond brick with stone and rendered stone additions and slate roof. Entrance front: stone plinth. Gabled single storey porch entrance to right hand side with rendered stone quoins. Semi-circular arched doorway now bricked in to lower level with arched late nineteenth century window above with ovolo moulded sill. To left of this is a 2-bay nineteenth century composition with a doorway to centre having gabled timber porch supported on brick base before. To either side are four-light windows with ovolo-moulded mullions and surrounds and cambered relieving arches over. Two similar three light windows to first floor with a single light nineteenth century window to the right over the seventeenth century gabled porch. Evidence of windows having been previously disposed in a different arrangement including signs of two second floor windows, now blocked. Nineteenth century two - storey addition to right with three-light canted bay window with ovolo-moulded mullions and surround to ground floor and three-light window to first floor with ovolo-moulded surround.

Interior: Chamfered end-stopped ceiling beams to ground floor rooms. Decorated panelling to through corridor (perhaps originally forming dais end to ground floor hall) of plaster and wood. Doorway to centre with rectangular panel above containing shield which is divided vertically by a raised band. Inscription in relief reads L. L. I. E. S. S. 1668 1673. To either side of this central panel are paired pilasters on cyma moulded bases with surrounding strap-work. To either side of them are semi-circular panels with strap-work surrounds and diamond-pointed rustication to their spandrels and raised keystones. The panels each contain relief mouldings of 2 pear trees inclined towards each other. Further rectangular panel over door to right also showing inclined pear trees, perhaps of a later date.

<2> Earthworks Archaeological Services, 2023, Manor Farm Barn, Manor Farm, Seven Sisters Lane, Ollerton, Knutsford, Cheshire: Archaeological Observation During Alterations., R4731 (Client Report). SCH9524.

Manor Farm dates from the late 17th century, it is of brick construction with stone details and later additions. The adjacent barn building dates from at least the same period and has a partially surviving timber-framed core along with a number of timber rafters. Both buildings are shown on the tithe map of 1848, the barn as a north–south linear agricultural range. By 1875 Manor Farm was recorded as Ollerton House on the Ordnance Survey map, but by 1895 it was called Manor Farm. By this date, the linear range had been extended to the west to create a brick cattle shed. By 1911, more outbuildings had been constructed to the south-west and south of the pre-existing agricultural buildings. The outbuildings remained in use for cattle until recently.