Manor School, With Forecourt Walls

DURNFORD GREAT DURNFORD SU 13 NW 8/112 Manor School, with 10.1.58 forecourt walls (formerly listed as "Manor House")

II Manor house, now girls' school. c1710-30 early-mid C19 and 1912-13 by George Silley of Craven Street, London, for Capt. Tryon. Header bond brickwork with stone dressings on a stone plinth. Tiled roofs. Three storeys, attic and cellars. Main east front is of 5 bays, with raised first floor over rusticated plinth. Wide central 6-panelled door with sashed sidelights, enclosed within stone pilastered frame with elongated acanthus consoles to a fluted architrave and triangular pediment. Five steps. Moulded string to first floor with end Ionic pilasters rising to eaves cornice. Ground and first floors have 12-paned sashes, the central window to the first floor having similar tripartite stone frame, but with horizontal cornice. Second floor added early C19, has 9-paned sashes and octagonal window to centre. Roof hipped, and two 12- paned sashed and hipped dormers. Stacks to side walls of block. Extensive rear block added c1840 and this, with east and west fronts refaced 1913 when south west wing and block extended to east as 3 storeys and basement service wing. Rear elevation is in Flemish bond brickwork with tiled roof, stone quoins to wings. Five bay central block with large semi-circular two-storey central bay, and l-bay end wings projecting. Central section has continuous iron balcony of c1840. South front has canted bay, and to rear of front block a door with eared architrave and open pediment enclosing mantled arms. Datestone on quoined wing reads AT CT (Tryon) 1913. Interior: Entrance hall has black and white stone tiles and moulded plaster cornice. Wide corridor to right leads to C19 stair with simple wreathed handrails. Classroom to right of hallway has moulded cornice and timber chimneypiece. Most of interior mid Cl9. Forecourt walls, C18, brick with stone weathered copings form semi-circular arms and terminate in brick piers with pyramidal stone caps.

Listing NGR: SU1378638495