Listed Building record MDO1121 - Folke Manor House, Folke

A two-storey building with walls of stone rubble and slate-covered roofs. The building has an L-shaped plan; the east wing was built late in the 15th or early 16th century, and the south wing added early in the 17th century. At the same time, the east wing was altered, so the external features of the house are of 17th-century or later date.

An L-shaped manor house built of rubble with slated roofs. The east wing is later 15th or early 16th century and the south wing is 17th century. In a field north east of the house is a small round moat enclosing an island about 25 m in diameter. Some ponds and banks suggest an earlier manorial site. <1> 'Folke Manor House', name confirmed by the owner, Commander Mitchell, a large plain-looking farmhouse built of rubble with stone dressings. Grey slate roofs and brick-built chimneys are modern. Interior fittings confirm the datings by RCHM <1>. In fair condition but not outstanding. A disturbed area, ST 65971331, in the pasture field, east of the house, is known according to the owner, as "The Old Manorial Site" and comprises some low, lynchet-like banks and some shapeless mounds, probably the site of a building and out- building, though no building material is visible. Immediately to the north is a circuled waterfilled moat-like feature, 40.0m across, with an island 28.0m in diameter, and east of it, two ponds, one 30.0 m long, 6.0 to 8.0 m wide, the other, 48.0 m long and 8.0m wide. They have more the appearance of old waterfilled pits than of constructed fish ponds. Enclosing the above features is an old boundary bank on the north, 5.0 m wide, 0.8 m high which is broken through in many places by cattle tracks, and on the east, a trackway 6.0 m wide with banks, 3.0 to 5.0 m wide, 0.7 m to 1.2 m high, which turns south-westwards to enclose the Medieval church of St Lawrence. <5>

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