Hillborough Manor House

TEMPLE GRAFTON

SP15SW HILLBOROUGH 1931-1/3/103 Hillborough Manor House 06/02/52 (Formerly Listed as: HILLBOROUGH Hillborough Manor)

GV II*

Mansion. c1600 including some early C16 work, with C18 extension to north and C20 restoration. Dressed blue lias stone; narrow coursed rubble to rear with sections of timber-framing with plaster infill and painted brick; renewed tile roof with stone lateral stacks with brick shafts, and brick ridge stacks. L-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic and 2-storey rear wing. West elevation: 4-window range with 3-storey cross wing to left end; French window to left of lateral stack and 2 windows of 2 wooden-chamfered mullioned lights; first floor has 2-light windows to left of stack, 8/8 horned sash and 2-light window to right. Left wing has 4-light wooden-chamfered mullioned window to each floor; re-entrant stack has diagonal brick shafts and lateral stack has star-plan brick shafts. Left return has gable end with basement openings with chamfered wooden frames and single and 3-light windows to ground and first floors, and 4-light window to attic; wing to left has section of close-studded timber-framing to first floor right half over narrow rubble courses, extension to left has alternate wide courses of rubble; entrance with plank door and 5-light window to ground floor, 3- and 5-light windows to first floor; extension to left has 2 large and one small windows to ground floor with brick segmental heads over 3-light small-paned casements, 2 first-floor windows with C20 small-paned casements. Right return has ashlar 3-light double-chamfered mullioned window to attic. Rear has re-entrant gabled stair wing which has wooden-chamfered mullioned single-light and 3-light window; similar 6-light transomed window to left and Tudor-headed entrance with blank shield above to left end. Wing has brick section to first floor corresponding to timber-framed section; 2 entrances, one with C20 stable door and one to right end with plank door; windows have small-paned casements, first floor has C20 oriel and one old casement, with iron opening casement. Gabled roofs. INTERIOR: richly moulded c1600 ceiling beams to room in wing, other rooms have heavy chamfered beams; plank doors with strap hinges; north-west room has re-set C17 panelling; timber-framed partition walls, one with ogee-headed former hatch; heavy C16 stair to turret; fireplaces with bressumers. A good example of a C16 manor house forming group with dovecote (qv) and converted farm buildings. Tradition, probably based on mistake in church register, asserts that a woman known as `Shakespeare's other Anne' was buried here in the extinct churchyard (whereabouts unknown). (Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 94-100; Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 432-3).

Listing NGR: SP1261952078