Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1954. Manor house. 5 related planning applications.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- final-stair-juniper
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1954
- Type
- Manor house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor house, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, now used as a nursing home. The building is constructed of brick with moulded brick bands and a moulded brick capping to the plinth. It has an old-tile hipped roof with moulded wooden eaves and a 20th-century hipped-tiled turret addition. Four axial brick ridge stacks are present. The building follows a double-pile plan.
The exterior is two storeys with an attic and cellar. The north front has a seven-window range, with the central three bays projecting forward. Throughout, windows are 6/6 sashes with painted reveals, sills, and gauged brick lintels. A moulded wooden doorcase with two fluted Doric pilasters and a plain entablature with cornice fronts a later 6-panelled divided door. Four box dormers are visible with 3/6 sashes.
The east return side is partly obscured by a 19th-century two-storey link to a stable block. The west return side shows three bricked-up window recesses, two box dormers, and a ground-floor lean-to constructed of tiled brick.
The rear elevation features two 6/6 sash windows on each floor at each end. The left-hand pairs of windows mirror those of the front elevation, while the right-hand windows have been restored, featuring moulded surrounds. A tall 8/4 sash window with a moulded case is centrally positioned, adjacent to a bricked-up window recess. A central 5-panelled partly-glazed door stands alongside a 3-light casement window. Four box dormers complete the rear elevation, again with 3/6 sashes.
The interior includes a hall with a curved oak staircase, featuring a toad-back handrail, three column-on-vase balusters per tread, and open treads with carved strings. There's an oak dado with fielded panels and fluted vertical framing. Early 19th-century 6-panelled doors are set within panelled doorcase reveals. The hall retains an early 19th-century beaded cornice. A carved marble fireplace with Bacchanalian figures on pilasters and festoons on the overmantel is a notable feature. West-facing front and back rooms have moulded plaster cornices and carved marble fireplaces; the front room includes a plaster frieze with Corinthian columns above a large niche on the end wall.
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