Westoning Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1985. House, residential school. 4 related planning applications.

Westoning Manor

WRENN ID
empty-cloister-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
3 May 1985
Type
House, residential school
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Westoning Manor is a house, now used as a residential school, built between 1842 and 1843 for the Reverend John William Coventry Campion. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and has a clay tile roof. The house has a complex, asymmetrical plan, with the main part being two storeys and attics, and other parts two storeys high or one storey and attics.

The east elevation displays balanced asymmetry with two slightly projecting shaped gables. The left-hand gable features paired windows to the ground floor and two windows to the first floor, with one window to the attic. The right-hand gable is similar, but with just one window on each of the ground and first floors. A centrally recessed block has two windows to the first floor. All windows are of two lights; the attic windows are mullioned, while the others have mullions and transoms. The ground floor of the central recess forms a distyle portico in antis, topped with pierced stone balustrading, which is repeated in the parapet balustrade. Small blind oculi are located above the windows on the gables, along with decorative finials. The recessed bay parapet features carved stone finials and a panel with a crest. Various ridge stacks are present, each with moulded octagonal shafts.

The south elevation includes two two-storey canted bays, with ornate stone cresting above them. The north elevation has a projecting two-storey and attic porch gable, similar to those on the east elevation, likely a later addition, featuring an elliptical archway. To the right is a one-storey and attic service wing. Most windows have honeycomb or diamond leaded lights.

The interior incorporates 17th-century carved woodwork, combined with 19th-century work in doors, doorcases, and chimney-pieces, as well as an imperial staircase. The 17th-century woodwork is believed to have come from an old house at Wrest Park and from the Houses of Parliament.

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