Maugersbury Manor

Maugersbury Manor is a former manor house, dating back to the 17th century, and subsequently altered in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It now functions as two houses, flats, and a school. The building is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone with a stone slate roof, and ashlar stacks. Originally ‘U’ shaped, it features a projecting central porch from the early 18th century, while a right wing has been demolished. Later 18th and 19th century extensions are located to the rear left, and a flat-roofed extension in the 20th century is present at the rear and onto the right gable-end, but these are not considered of special architectural interest.

The main body of the house is two storeys, raised to three storeys in the 18th century, with a five-bay facade. It features double-chamfered, stone-mullioned casement windows with stopped hoods. Some windows have ovolo-moulded mullions, others hollow-moulded mullions, alongside plate glass and leaded panes. Diocletian windows in plain surrounds are set within the third floor, some with leaded panes. A plate glass sash window in the bay to the right of the porch has a moulded and eared 18th-century architrave.

The left wing is two storeys and an attic, lit by a hipped roof dormer. Two 19th-century buttresses with Gothic panelling support the right wall. The central two-storey porch has a part-glazed front. A 19th-century panelled door, featuring carved wood trimmings, is set within a reused 13th-century pointed arched surround. This surround was originally from the Malthouse, Digbeth Street, Stow, and was removed in 1865. A rainwater head, dated and initialled '/17. S. C. 94/', covers a 19th-century rainwater head to the left of the projecting porch. The rear fenestration is similar to that on the front. A former 18th-century central doorway, with a triple keystone and moulded surround, is now hidden behind a 19th-century extension. The porch front has a hipped roof. Axial and gable end stacks, some diagonally set, are present, topped with moulded cappings.

A stone wall, approximately 5 meters in height, extends forwards from the left wing, with a blocked doorway with a triple keystone, potentially a former entrance to a walled yard. A stone is incorporated into a flower bed to the right of the entrance porch, bearing an incised inscription: '/JOS CHAMBE..../ ESQ Apr ' 17....../'. The building may occupy the site of Evesham Abbey’s house, and was owned by the Chamberlayne family from 1598 until the end of the 19th century. The interior has not been inspected. Historical illustrations include an engraving by J. Kip in Atkyns’ History of Gloucestershire (1712) and references in the Victoria County History of Gloucestershire, Volume VI.