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TA l0 NE KEELBY CHURCH LANE 6/123 No.9 Shop and Church End 4-10-72 Farmhouse I Shop, formerly manor house of the South family. c,1200 with extensive alterations of the C14 and some of the C20, Squared chalk blocks, some brick patching, pantiled gabled roof with raised stone coped west gable rising to a carved and decorated C14 roof finial. Rectangular plan. 2 storey 1 bay west front. On ground floor is a C20 planked door in wooden architrave set within a former C14 window opening, the wall beneath which has been removed in order to accommodate the door. Covered by a C20 gabled roof. On the first floor is a fine C14 3 light window with cusped ogee tracery, moulded mullions and central transom, moulded flat hood mould with human head label stops. Inside, the ground floor has little beyond some irregular square aumbries in the side walls, now plastered. On the first floor, however, evidence of a first floor hall is provided by the presence of a fine hooded fireplace, the hood having a bold roll moulding along its top edge, and supported on simple corbel brackets. In the east wall are traces of 2 doorways opening from the body of the hall chamber. In the south wall is a window with a rounded head, formerly a door. The presence of this door with its early detail and evidence of first floor access encourages the view that the structure is earlier than certain of its surviving architectural details. The thick walls, first floor access and rounded arch would all have been archaic by the C14. To the east of the early block is a later brick house with extensive C20 alterations. The site was originally moated; part of the moat can be seen to the north of the early block. Listing NGR: TA1662909977

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