Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1952. A Georgian Manor house. 4 related planning applications.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- floating-cloister-moth
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1952
- Type
- Manor house
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House, originally built around 1707 (as indicated by a date on a sundial above the central first-floor window), was altered in the 19th century. The front and rear are of narrow red brick in an English garden wall bond, with flush ashlar quoins, set on a rubble basement; the returns are in rubble. The roof is renewed and tiled with pantiled sections and brick chimneys. The building follows a double-pile plan, featuring a central staircase to the rear.
The symmetrical front has three stories plus a basement, arranged over five bays. A modern flight of four steps leads to a 19th-century part-glazed door with a tall overlight set within linked architraves, topped by a pulvinated frieze and segmental pediment. The basement windows are 8-pane horizontal sliding sashes. The ground and first floors have replaced 12-pane sashes under gauged brick flat arches, while the upper floor windows are 16-pane, with the ground-floor openings having been enlarged. A replaced wooden, dentilled eaves cornice is also present. The steeply-pitched, two-span roof has raised verges, shaped kneelers, and two end chimneys. A rainwater head, ornamented in design, is on the left return.
The symmetrical rear elevation is similar to the front, with replaced 12- and 16-pane sashes, a reinstated early 18th-century two-panel door to the left of centre, and an early 19th-century Venetian stair window set in the centre of the wall.
The interior retains remnants of two-panel panelling and cornices in two rooms (one on the ground floor and one on the first floor), the reception hall, and the staircase. There are several two-panel doors within bolection-moulded surrounds. A spacious, three-flight open-well staircase has a dog gate at the head of the first flight, with wavy splat balusters, square newels, a moulded closed string, and a heavy moulded handrail that is ramped at each turn. The staircase hall features a wall string and ramped dado with bolection-moulded panels. A Palladian-motif stair window is composed of detached Roman Doric columns and an entablature. The upper stair hall is symmetrical, with five two-panel doors within bolection-moulded surrounds.
A modern brick building attached to the left of the entrance front is not considered to be of special interest.
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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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