The Manor House

WELLESBOURNE

SP2655 CHESTNUT SQUARE 1901-1/12/229 (North side) 20/07/95 Wellesbourne Mountford The Manor House

GV II

Manor house. 1857, incorporating elements of earlier house, with 1880s rear extension. For Revd John Lucy. Brick with buff headers; gabled tile roofs with brick end stacks and cross-axial and end stacks to rear, all with diagonal shafts and caps. Victorian-Tudor style. Irregular plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; asymmetrical 5-window range. 3 wide bays break forward under gables with narrower bays between. Brick plat bands and wide eaves and verges. Entrance to right of centre has gabled hood and overlight to door. Windows have sills and wood mullioned and transomed frames with decorative glazing with elongated octagons; ground floor has central segmental-headed window with 3-light glazing; similar, narrower window to left with 2-light glazing; canted bay to each end with hipped roof over 1:3:1-light glazing. First floor has cross-mullioned windows, those to wide bays with segmental heads and narrow glazed gable lights. Rear gabled wing with range parallel to main range, with small-paned cross-casements, small single-storey addition with timber dovecote to gable and flat-roofed re-entrant block. INTERIOR: ground floor has some chamfered beams; large C19 fireplace to right end has Tudor arch and cornice; stone cellar walls. HISTORY: the original house was the property of the Venour family 1560-1857 and was then brought and rebuilt by the Revd John Lucy of Charlecote and Hampton Lucy. (Bolton, EMR & Bolton, PM: A Wellesbourne Guide: Wellesbourne Mountford: Wellesbourne: 1989-: 20-21).

Listing NGR: SP2777855212