Luddington Manor

LUDDINGTON

SP15SE VILLAGE STREET 1931-1/4/65 (North side) 02/08/72 Luddington Manor (Formerly Listed as: VILLAGE STREET The Manor House)

GV II

Manor house. C16 or C17 with C19 front range. Timber-frame rear range with brick infill and some rubble; brick front range with ashlar dressings; tile roof with brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; symmetrical 3-window range. Plat bands over ground and first floors, and top modillioned brick cornice. Entrance has brick flat arch and overlight to half-glazed door with etched glass panels. Ground floor has ashlar bay windows with sills and cornices; first floor has windows with sills and wedge lintels, all with 1/1 plate-glass horned sashes, signs of blocked window to left of centre. Gabled roof. Attic has 3 gabled dormers, coped with kneelers, stop-chamfered reveals and 2-light casements. External stacks, that to left cruciform. Lower, single-window, painted brick extension to left has recessed rounded angle, C19 French window and tall window with 2-light casement to first floor; single-storey lean-to outshut to right return. Left return has stone gable end with exposed timber-framed gable head and lower wing with brick over coursed rubble; right return has timber-framed gable to rear range. Rear has mid C19 gabled wing with top frieze and gablet to each side; sashed first-floor windows. INTERIOR: exposed timber-framing and broadly chamfered spine beams to rear range; some doorways with heavy pegged frames. Rising land to the rear is terraced, possibly for medieval or earlier vineyards.

Listing NGR: SP1674252650