The Manor House And Adjoining Boundary Wall

The Manor House and Adjoining Boundary Wall

A manor house now used as offices, located in Mansfield Woodhouse. The building dates from the early 17th century, with alterations and additions made during the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is largely designed in the Gothick style.

The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble, coursed squared rubble, roughcast and pebbledash, with ashlar dressings. The roof is hipped and gabled with graduated slate tiles. The building features projecting quoins, a moulded eaves band, crenellated and plain coped parapets, and coped gables. There are 2 gable stacks and 3 ridge stacks. The building is 2 and 3 storeys with garrets, arranged across 15 bays in a modified H-plan with additions.

The south front features to the left a flat-roofed single bay addition with a door. To its right is a blocked opening with a 20th-century door, beyond which are paired and single sash windows. Further right is a parapeted porch containing a 16th-century Tudor arched doorway, above which is a blank niche. Beyond this are 2 sashes, followed by a projecting 3-storey bay with a 20th-century Tudor arched door flanked by 2 sashes. In the return angle to the east is a quarter-round portico with 4 columns and a crenellated parapet. A 2-storey wing to the right has 4 tall sashes and, further right, a 20th-century canted bay window with 3 sashes. Above to the left are paired sashes flanked by single sashes; to the right are 10 sashes of varying sizes. Beyond is a blocked opening and a single sash. Above again are 3 sashes. The return angle has to the west 3 sashes and above them 2 sashes and 2 blocked openings.

The west front has a central louvred opening with a 20th-century casement above it.

The rear elevation is complex. To the left is a 20th-century flat-roofed 2-storey addition of 3 bays. To its right is a 3-bay gabled wing and a double-gabled 3-storey wing with 2 20th-century flat-roofed single-bay additions. Between the wings is a 3-bay recess with 20th-century 2-storey infill. To the left of this is a recessed panelled doorway with fanlight, flanked to the left by 2 sashes and to the right by 5 sashes. Beyond to the left is a casement; beyond to the right are a cross casement and a plain casement. To the right again is a casement flanked by single sashes, and beyond that a casement flanked by single doors. Above to the left are 4 sashes and an oval dummy window. To the right are 4 sashes and an oval dummy window flanked by single cross casements. Beyond are a sash and cross casement, and to their right a casement and 3 sashes. Above again to the left are 2 sashes, and to their right are 2 mullioned casements flanked by single blocked mullioned casements. Beyond is another mullioned casement.

The east front has a projecting wing at each end, that to the right being hipped. Between them is a single-storey flat-roofed 20th-century addition. To the left are 6 metal casements and to the right a double door and single casement, all 20th-century. Above to the left is a central Venetian window with keystone, flanked by single sashes. Beyond to the right is a sash. Above again to the left is a flat-roofed dormer with sash, and to the right are 3 gabled dormers with casements. The return angle to the north has above it a casement and a round-headed casement with fanlight.

Most windows are mid-19th-century glazing bar sashes, and most have projecting eared and keystoned architraves.

The interior contains a late 17th-century main staircase to the south-east. This has a square well with 3 flights plus landings, square panelled newels with double vase, vase and stem, and barley sugar balusters. The handrail is ramped, and the string and undertread are scroll-carved with scroll brackets and bosses. The stair wall and dado are heavily moulded. The stairwell has a doorway with Corinthian pilasters, a mask keystone, and decorative carving. A 19th-century minor dogleg staircase with landing has square newels and vase and stem balusters. A second minor winder staircase has a scrolled ramped handrail and stick balusters.

The principal room on the north side has framed timber panelling to dado and chair rail height, with a deep Classical cornice. There are remains of similar panelling in the corridor. The corresponding room on the south side has plaster panels with moulded frames and a 19th-century Classical timber fireplace with guilloche. It also contains a single moulded doorcase.

The first floor features to the east a timber-panelled room with deep cornice and keystoned window head, and a bolection-moulded fireplace with pulvinated frieze. To the south-east is a similar panelled room with a similar fireplace and 2 18th-century doors. The panelled hallway is on the north side and contains a panelled room with eared timber fireplaces and an overmantel mirror with scroll brackets. There are 11 18th-century 2-panel doors and 2 late 18th-century iron doors with Tudor arched heads. A bolection-moulded fireplace with bow-fronted Adam-style grate dates to the early 19th century.

The west end has a 17th-century principal rafter roof, hipped. The east end has a similar 17th-century roof with double purlins above the rafters.

An adjoining boundary wall stands to the south of the house, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed squared rubble with flat ramped coping and is approximately 50 metres long.