Listed Building: UNSTONE MANOR HOUSE (1335126)

Manor House. 1630 with C18 alterations. Coursed squared rubble coal measures sandstone rising from a shallow chamfered plinth, with ashlar dressings, quoins, coped gables with moulded kneelers, intermediate and end ashlar ridge stacks, with diagonally set chimneys with moulded caps. Stone slated roofs, some with stone slated valleys. L-plan house. West elevation. Two storeys, six bays, with two bay advanced wing to the north of the main doorway situated in the angle of the two ranges. Doorway with quoined surround, alternate quoins advanced, in the Gibbsian manner. Massive lintel with carved keyblock, above which is a carved inscribed plaque, the inscription weathered so as to be illegible. The hoodmould to the door steps up over the plaque. To the south of the door a 4-light chamfer mullioned window and at first floor level a single light, a 2-light and a 4-light window, and to the attic a broad gabled dormer with a blocked 3-light window, all openings being chamfer mullioned, beneath hoodmoulds with label stops. Fixed lights and metal casement windows with leaded lights. Advanced two bay wing, with 2 and 3-light mullioned and transomed C17 openings to the ground floor, that to the south bay blocked, and with 2, 3 and 4-light openings to the first floor. A continuous hoodmould with stops returns to main range to link with mouldings to entrance bay. North corner of wing slightly advanced, and quoined on both faces. Rear elevation. Three gabled dormers each with 3-light mullioned windows. Below the centre and south gables, a continuous plain drip which returns onto the south gabel end. Two outer bays each with stacked 3-light chamfer mullioned windows, together with two single light openings to the first floor. The centre bay has a 4-light first floor window above the 4-light transomed window to the hall bay. This window, and that to the north end, have hoodmoulds with stops. The doorway to the south end has a quoined surround, and is flanked by a single light window to the south, and a 3-light chamfer mullioned window to the north, all beneath a continuous dripmould. Interior. Ornamental geometric patterned flagstones to floor of hall, onto a raised dais within the advanced wing, which has re-used C17 square oak panelling. C18 stair with wreathed handrail, but incorporating an earlier moulded timber used as a newel post. Massive arched hearth to south bay, and the remains of two upper cruck trusses incorporated in a remodelled roof structure. The house plan is illustrated in Nathaniel Lloyd's 'A History of the English House'. Listing NGR: SK3694777380