Ashby Folville Manor

SK 71 SW MAIN STREET

Ashby Folville (south side) 9/87 Ashby Folville Manor

G.V. II

Manor house, now offices. Mid C17, rebuilt in 1893 in a similar style to the designs of J. Ely, following a fire. Coursed and squared ironstone with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Chamfered rubble plinth, quoins, coped gables with kneelers and obelisk finials. 3 ridge and 2 lateral coped stone stacks. 3 storeys plus attics, 5 bays. H-plan. Windows are cross and mullioned leaded casements with flat hood moulds and leaded glazing. Dormers have coped gables. Symmetrical west front has recessed 3 bay centre with 2 storey tower porch, flanked by taller gabled wings. Central 4 centred arched doorway with shield panel above it dated 1893, and flanking columns. flanked by single flat roofed balustraded bay windows, each with a triple casement. Beyond, each wing has a double casement. Above, canted central bay window in porch with 3 casements. Beyond, single paired casements. Beyond, to left, a smaller casement. Beyond, to right, a door. Above, on each side, a round window. Beyond, single paired casements. Above again, 2 dormers, and beyond, single paired casements. Above again, to left, 3 light casement in gable. Return angle to left has a second-floor casement and above it, a dormer. South front has a central canted bay window with a balustraded gallery above it, flanked by single keystoned round headed arches with glazed doors. Beyond, single 2 storey square bay windows each with mullioned casements on each floor and on each side. Beyond to right, set back bay with a casement. Above, central bay has 4 centred arched door with shaped hood, flanked by single large casements. Set back bay has a single casement. Above again, 3 dormers, each with a double casement. North side has central cross mullioned casement flanked by single buttresses, 4 setoffs. To left, a casement. To right, chamfered doorway. Beyond, to left, kitchen with 2 mullioned casements and to right, large cross eaves dormer. Above, central casement flanked to left by a smaller casement and to right by 3 casements of various sizes. Above again, central casement, flanked to left by a smaller casement and to right by 2 smaller stepped casements. Rear elevation has to left, 2 storey parapeted extruded corner parapeted porch, and to its right, service wing, 4 bays. Beyond, to left, 4 bay single storey outbuilding with coped wall. Beyond to right, single storey gabled kitchen.

Listing NGR: SK7078211895