The Manor Farm, Kites Hardwick
A manor house which was originally built during the Medieval period. Addtions were made to the building during the Post Medieval or Imperial period. The house is situated at Kites Hardwick.
1 Three story red square brick building with stone dressings, of early 18th Century. It is built against a 16th Century house. The north and east elevations are plain brickwork without openings or stone dressings. The main front to the south has a stone moulded plinth, rebated quoins, and a central doorway with a moulded architrave, keystone, and segmental pediment. There are three sash windows to each of the upper floors and one on either side of the door, all with stone moulded architraves, sills, and projecting keystones. At each floor level there are moulded string-courses, which are returned round the keystones, and above a stone moulded cornice on which rests a parapet divided into panels by stone piers and finished with a moulded coping. The west elevation has four windows to each floor with the cornice, parapet, and plinth continuing from the south.
2 Listed Building description.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
In approximately 1942-1944 when I was four years old, my parents my sister and I lived here for a couple of years after we were blitzed out of our home in Coventry. I remember a big room upstairs with cases of stuffed animals or birds hanging on the wall. Also a very impressive staircase which I would come down at night if I was frightened and couldn’t sleep to try and see my parents. There was a large kitchen where I would watch my ‘aunt’. We would be outside turning the barrel to make butter then go inside and I would watch her with the butter pats shaping it. I used to watch her in a shed where she would pluck chickens. I have just found a photo of me feeding the chickens as a small child. My ‘Aunt and Uncle’ were Mr and Mrs Gills and their son was called Edwin, they had a tennis court and a long front garden with cows. I remember one of them chasing me and my Mum one day when we walked down to the gate. I also remember a large stagnant pool next to the fence on the right hand side as you walked down the drive. Amazing memories.
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