Mountbatten House And Attached Garden Walls

STUDLEY ALCESTER ROAD SP06SE (East side) 4/186 Mountbatten House and 01/02/67 attached garden wails (Formerly listed as Manor House with gate piers and gates)

GV II*

Manor house and attached garden walls. Late C17 (VCH). Interior remodelled c.1740. C19 addition. Probably built for Charles Knottesford. Red English bond brick with stone pilasters, dressings, entablature and cornice, and parapet. Double-span slate hipped roof behind parapet; brick internal stacks. Central staircase plan. 2 storeys and attic, with 2 storey front; 5-window range. Ionic giant angle pilasters. Central stone doorcase of Tuscan half-columns and pilasters, and segmental pediment breaking forward at each side. 15-pane sashes in moulded stone architraves with keystones, and sill band on ground floor. Deep entablature and modillion cornice. Parapet with balustrading above each bay, and corner urns. Garden front similar, but with brick parapet, recessed above each bay, and without urns. Return sides have blind windows. 3-bay right side has central C20 attic window; 4-bay left side has attic casements. 2-bay addition on left has pitched roof. Sashes in moulded stone frames. Interior: Central hall and through passage and room on garden front have dados, partly of early C17 panelling from The Old Castle (q.v.). Room also has Jacobean style fireplace and overmantel, possibly with some old woodwork. Good dog-leg staircase with scrolled open string and 3 column-on-vase balusters to each tread. Rooms to left no right of entrance have carved wooden chimneypieces and moulded doorcases. Late C17 moulded cornices. 2- and 6-panelled doors throughout. First floor has eared door architraves. Back staircase with turned balusters. Brick garden wall attached to left and right and right angles on right garden front. The interior was remodelled after a fire c.1740. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.111, p.175, Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.423).

Listing NGR: SP0740863534