Welbourn Manor

WELBOURN BECK STREET SK 95 SE (west side)

4/45 Welbourn Manor 19.ll.51

GV II*

Small country house. Early C14, C15, C17 and heavily restored 1904, Coursed and dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roofs, with ashlar coped gables with finials. 2 external, a single ridge and 3-gable moulded ashlar stacks. 2-storey plus garrets. H plan with central hall and cross wings. East front has off-centre projecting porch with a recessed and moulded 4-centred arched doorway with half glazed C20 door. Above a coat of arms inscribed '1904' with drip mould and moulded band over, the whole topped with coped battlements. Above a single 4-light recessed a chamfered mullion window, under a dripmould. To the left a small C20 timber and stone extension. Below to the right a single recessed and chamfered transom window, and then a very large 4 x 4 light transom and mullion hall window. The projecting cross wing to the left has a 6-light recessed and chamfered cross mullion window with above a similar 5-light mullion window under a drip mould, above again a similar single light window. The projecting cross wing to the right has a 5-light recessed and chamfered cross mullion window, with above a similar 4- light mullion window under a drip mould, above again a similar single light window. South front has a large external stack to the right supported on re- used medieval corbel heads. To the left a single 2-light recessed and cham- fered mullion window, with beyond a similar 2-light and then a 5-light cross mullion window. Above a single 2-light and to the left two 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion window. Attached to the south-east corner is a single storey extension with a hipped roof and various mullion windows, beyond to the east is a coped brick wall with a rubble stone archway and wrought iron gate. West front is of 8 irregular bays, under 5 irregular gables, with 2 doorways and various early C20 cross mullion windows. To the north-east is a 5 bay 2-storey extension c.1965 of no special interest. INTERIOR: Pointed archway from hall to solar , with single shafts and a heavily moulded arch early C14. In the right cross wing is a fine C15 moulded 4-centred arched fireplace. The remaining interiors have various Elizabethan Revival fire- places, plaster ceilings and panelling, all of 1904. The roof timbers are mostly C17, using a simple collar beam roof construction.

Listing NGR: SK9663753982