Webbery Manor

ALVERDISCOTT WEBBERY SS52NW 4/30 Webbery Manor II House. Built 1821-6 for John Cutcliffe. Colourwashed stucco over coursed slatestone rubble. Gabled slate roof with overhanging eaves, and early C19 gutter to front; rendered brick stacks. Regency Tudor style. Triple-depth plan, enclosing 3 sides of cobbled yard to rear. 2 storeys; 4-window range has porch to centre of symmetrical 3-window range to left of 2-storey canted bay to right. Porch has moulded Tudor-style doorways with depressed arches and sunk spandrels to early C19 panelled and studded outer door and half-glazed inner door with glazing bars: exterior of porch has frieze of blank shields set in revealed panels. Label moulds over early C19 three-light wood-mullioned and transomed windows with glazing bars set in chamfered architraves; two C20 two-light windows to top right. Canted bay to right has label moulds with pendant stops over deep 2-light moulded wood-mullioned and transomed windows with glazing bars set in chamfered architraves. Right side wall has similar one-storey bay window. Left side wall has canted bay window with frieze of blank shields set in revealed panels. Courtyard to rear has Tudor-style doorway to former chapel on left-hand side. Interior: early C19 Tudor-style panelled doors and shutters throughout. Central hall to front and parlour to left have Tudor-style fireplaces. Stair-hall to rear of hall has early C19 dog-leg with landing staircase with turned balusters and wreathed handrail. To right of hall, room to front has marble classical-style fireplace with blank shields to frieze, and room to rear has Tudor-style fireplace and decorative plasterwork to ceiling. First floor noted as having similar Tudor-style fireplaces with cast-iron grates. History: built for John Cutcliffe (1778-1827), a former Lieutenant-Colonel in Arms, and in 1847 described in a "Times" advertisement as "suited for a large and genteel family, near post towns, and within a few hours drive of the railway now completed" (Information from local historian).

Listing NGR: SS5030025989