Manor Place is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1986. Former stables.
Manor Place
- WRENN ID
- salt-slate-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1986
- Type
- Former stables
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a complex of former stables, hayloft, groom's house, bothy, and kitchen garden wall, now converted into two houses. It was built in 1867 (as indicated by a datestone) by Henry Woodyer for Sir Robert Luring. The main house, Manor House, was demolished after the Second World War. The complex underwent restoration in the mid-20th century.
The buildings form an L-shape with a large square of walling attached. The stables, hayloft, and groom's house are primarily constructed of flint with brick dressings, sitting on a plinth and covered by a tiled roof. A portion of the L-wing is clad in weatherboarding on the east elevation. The building is one storey high with attics and features irregular window placement. The groom’s quarters occupy the right-hand two bays, with stabling to the left and the hayloft above. The roof includes one square, channelled brick chimneystack on the right, and a central square cupola with a pyramidal shingled roof. The cupola has a weathervane, a bell, and a working clock mechanism within. There are four small pentice dormers, and a larger gabled dormer with a mullioned and transomed wooden window. A loading door to the hayloft has cambered wooden double doors with quatrefoil motifs.
The ground floor has five windows: three triple mullioned windows with cambered brick heads to the left, a four-light mullioned window, and a three-light window with a pointed arched head. A pointed arched doorcase with a plank door and iron hinges is also present on the right-hand side. A cambered brick arch is positioned centrally, located behind a double wooden doorcase with six fielded panels and a semi-circular head; this doorcase was brought from the demolished Manor House. Three circular brick ventilation holes are positioned above the plinth. The south-east gable has a three-light window above and a round-headed window below. The north-east elevation has four small pentice dormers, one larger gabled dormer to the left, and eight windows, primarily of two or three lights, including a semi-circular window and a wooden French window. There are also five circular brick ventilation holes.
The interior retains original elaborate loose boxes with vertical plank panelling, ironwork, and moulded wooden balusters. The attached bothy, to the north, is constructed of flint with red brick dressings and a slate roof, and leans against the kitchen garden wall. It has six casement windows and an arched doorcase with a wooden plank door, chamfered ledges and braces, iron hinges, and flat wooden weatherboard on iron brackets. The kitchen garden wall is flint-faced externally but internally features a unique system of alternating bands of plain brick with moulded brick, incorporating three pierced holes designed to support espalier peach and nectarine bushes. The wall forms a roughly square enclosure of approximately 100 meters square, varying in height from 6 to 18 feet, with a section of the south-eastern side having collapsed.
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