Maugersbury Manor

MAUGERSBURY MAUGERSBURY VILLAGE SP 12 NE 3/160 Maugersbury Manor (formerly listed as Manor House) 25.8.60 II Former manor house now two houses, flats and school. C17, C18, C19 and C20. Coursed squared and dressed limestone, stone slate roof, ashlar stacks. Originally 'U' shaped in plan with projecting central porch early C18, right wing now demolished, C18 and C19 extensions rear left, C20 flat-roofed extensions at rear and onto right gable-end not of special interest. Main body; 2 storeys raised to 3 storeys C18. Five bays; 2, 3 and 4-light double- chamfered, stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods, some with ovolo-moulded mullions some hollow-moulded mullions plate glass windows and leaded panes. Diocletian windows within plain surrounds to third floor, some with leaded panes. Plate glass sashes to bay right of porch with moulded and eared C18 architraves. Left wing, 2 storeys and attic lit by hipped roof- dormer. Two C19 buttresses with Gothic panelling supporting right wall. Central 2-storey porch with central part glazed. C19 panelled door with carved wood trimmings within reused C13 pointed arched surround with composite piers with foliate decoration to capitals on left and ball flower decoration to capitals on right. Surround removed from the Malthouse, Digbeth Street, Stow in 1865. Part of former rainwater head, dated and initialled /17. S. C. 94/ covering C19 rainwater head left of projecting porch. Fenestration at rear similar to that at front. Former C18 central doorway with triple keystone and moulded surround hidden by C19 extension. Hipped roof to porch at front. Axial and gable end stacks some diagonally set, moulded cappings. Subsidiary features: wall c 5m in height extends forwards from left wing, at front with blocked doorway with triple keystone, possibly former entrance to walled yard. Stone incorporated in flower bed right of entrance porch to house with incised inscription /JOS CHAMBE..../ ESQ Apr ' 17....../. History; possibly on the site of Evesham Abbey's house mentioned in 1402 in the ownership of the Chamberlayne family from 1598 until the end of the C19. Interior not inspected. (Engraving by J. Kip, Atkyns History of Glos 1712 and V.C.H. Glos Vol VI).

Listing NGR: SP1974125180