Hidcote Manor

SP 14 SE EBRINGTON HIDCOTE BARTRIM

5/46 Hidcote Manor

GV II

Former farmhouse, enlarged to form manor house. Early C20. Late C17 block refronted C18 with C20, C17 style block attached, built under the patronage of Gertrude Winthrop for her son Lawrence Johnston. Late C17 block: ashlar limestone with tiled roof. Flat coped gables. Moulded stone eaves cornice with sundial finial far left and vase finial far right. Continuous band over ground floor windows. Rectangular ashlar gable end stacks. C20 block; squared limestone with limestone slate roof, with flat coped gables with ball finials. Group of 8 octagonal stacks from gable end to rear. C20 lead guttering to both blocks, probably by Norman Jewson with initials G.W., (Gertrude Winthrop), dog tooth decoration and scroll shaped brackets. Plan: C17 block with C18 facade extends back on right to form one side of a courtyard. C20 block attached rear right C17/18 block: 2 storeys and attic, lit by 3, segmental headed dormers from roof. 3-windowed: single and twinned 12-pane sashes. Central 7-panel door in classical surround with engaged Doric columns supporting open triangular pediment. 3-pane light with garlanded glazing bars over. Right wall has mullioned and transomed windows and C18 doorway with a bolection moulded surround, broken pediment and coat of arms. C20 block has single principal gable to courtyard and twin gabled walls to right and left. 2 storeys and attic. 3-light stone-mullioned windows with flat hoods some mullioned and transomed windows also. Venetian style canted oriel window in left wall. All windows in C20 block have leaded lights. Interior: fine C18 fireplace with black marble surround with classical, dancing figure frieze, in front left room ground floor. National Trust property.

Listing NGR: SP1762942855