Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Manor house. 3 related planning applications.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- woven-loft-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Manor house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a large, detached manor house. The core of the building likely dates to the late 15th or early 16th century, with significant enlargement occurring around the 1630s. A further wing was added to the north-west in 1924. The construction is of random coursed rubble stone with flush quoins, covered by a stone slate roof. There are renewed stone stacks, including a large, partially external flue attached to the main fireplace on the north side.
Originally a single range with a through passage, a gabled cross wing was added to the east, and a projecting wing to the north-west, forming an 'L' shape. The house is mostly two storeys and has an attic. It was probably originally a hall with a solar to the east of a screens passage, and a two-storey service wing to the west. The roof was raised in the early 17th century, necessitating the addition of raking buttresses against the south wall to support the increased weight. Some original smoke-blackened timbers were reportedly reused to create the new roof structure.
On the north side, the original entrance features a chamfered and stopped Tudor stone archway bearing the initials "M" and "S" (associated with the Strange family) in the spandrels. This archway is now covered by a long, lean-to addition. The original vertical battened plank door has been moved to a new outer entrance, recessed under a cambered beam with carved stone heads on each side. An external stack rises through the lean-to, and it contains mostly small leaded casements on the left and a 20th-century raised window on the right.
The 17th-century cross wing has coped gables at both ends, featuring three-light, hollow-moulded leaded stone mullion and transom windows with square hoodmoulds to the ground and first floors. A two-light stone mullion with a square hoodmould is located in the attic on the north side, and at the angle wing connecting it to the main range. The 1924 north-west wing was constructed in a sympathetic style with leaded stone windows.
The south front displays the original service wing to the west, featuring three and two-light stone mullion and transom windows with square hoodmoulds and relieving arches to both the first and ground floors. The original hall steps forward slightly, having a wide hipped porch with a depressed Tudor arch—its chamfered jambs and lintel originally housed a vertical battened plank door, now at the north entrance. Above the porch is a three-light stone mullion and transom, and two similar windows to the ground and first floors. The ground floor window on the far right was raised to create an original dais. All the windows have leaded iron casements, including two small, hipped dormers. The south gable end of the 17th-century wing exhibits large squared masonry.
The interior was substantially altered in 1967 and the 1970s, including the movement of partitions within the main hall and the removal of the screens partition. A large 16th-century strapwork stone fireplace is located below the external stack on the original north wall. Behind plaster on the east wall is a former fireplace for the solar, as well as a large stone fireplace carved with terms and Hungerford arms. Some 17th-century panelling survives in the additional north entrance hall. There are reports of a manor house on this site since the 14th century.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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