Milcote Manor

MILCOTE

SP15SE MILCOTE 1931-1/4/69 Milcote Manor 02/08/72

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Manor house. C17 with C16 elements and early C18 rebuilding; enlarged in early C19. Rear left half of ashlar with first floor of timber-frame with brick infill; right half of C18 brick on rubble plinth; front range of C19 brick; hipped tile roof with 2 front gables and 3 brick stacks, one with brick shaft on coursed blue lias rubble. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: Front of 2 storeys; 2-window range. 2 gables. Central entrance has hipped open porch and C20 half-glazed door with side light. Segmental-headed windows have sills, and 2-light small-paned casements. Left return has gabled left end of early C18 brick with plat band over ground floor; lateral stack to right of centre is rubble incorporating some ashlar and stone dated: AD 1564, 2 square brick shafts with cornice. Segmental-headed windows with sills: left end has wide window to ground floor with 4-light C20 transomed small-paned casement, first-floor window has similar 3-light casement, small window to attic has 2-light small-paned casement; windows with 2-light small-paned casements flank stack. Right return has ashlar and timber-frame right half. Segmental-headed entrance to left of centre has C20 small-paned half-glazed door, small segmental-headed window to left and canted flat-roofed bay window to right with 1:2:1-light small-paned casements, late C20 canted flat-roofed bay window to right half; first floor has small window and larger window with sill and 2-light small-paned casement, right half has blocked 3-light wooden-mullioned window; stack to front of ridge has 4 clustered diagonal shafts. Rear has 2-storey gabled projection with canted bay window with hipped slate roof and segmental-headed window above, lateral stack to right; ashlar and timber-framed part to left has entrance with bracketed canopy over small-paned half-glazed door and window above; first-floor windows have sills and 2-light small-paned casements. Ashlar part has several stones carved with strapwork, fluting etc, with enriched cornice to rear elevation. INTERIOR: reported as much altered after early C19 fire and in C20. HISTORY: the house stands on a moated site; carved stones are reputed to come from the ruins of Mount Grevill, a house for which Sir Ludovic Grevill received licence to build in 1567, but was never finished. Either the manor house (VCH) or Mount Grevill (Bloom Collection) is believed to have been burnt down by Parliamentary forces in 1644. (Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 198-202; Information from the Bloom Collection: 36-8).

Listing NGR: SP1712352434