Flats The Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. A C17 Flats. 5 related planning applications.
Flats The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-iron-lichen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Flats
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House, now converted into six flats, is an early 17th-century building with a plan based around an east-west axis, incorporating elements of a 16th-century structure. It was altered in the 18th century and in the 20th century, with significant 19th-century extensions to the northwest. The original part of the building is constructed of thin brick in English bond, with stone-coped gables and window surrounds. It features a timber frame with brick infill on the right side, and has old tile roofs and chimneys of thin brick with square shafts set diagonally, including rebuilt, offset heads. One gable features an 18th-century rectangular brick chimney.
The building is two storeys high with an attic. The central gabled porch has two narrow bays on each side, and is flanked by gabled projecting side wings, each with a return of two bays. The left wing has two-light moulded stone mullion windows with leaded lights to the main floors and a blocked single light to the attic. The front gable of the right wing is similar, but with a three-pane sash window on the ground floor. To the right of the porch is a four-light stone mullion window and a narrow bay of single lights, the upper one blocked. Other windows have had their central mullions removed and are now fitted with 19th-century sash windows. The porch has a moulded stone four-centred arch with carved spandrels and a hoodmould; within it is an early 18th-century three-panelled door within a moulded wooden architrave frame. The south front features a 20th-century two-storey canted bay window.
The 19th-century extensions to the north are of red brick with irregular gables and hipped roofs. Internally, the central range has flanking moulded stone fireplaces with four-centred arches. The left room retains half-height 17th-century panelling and an 18th-century door, while the right room, originally the hall, features a stop-chamfered spine beam. Similar, smaller stone fireplaces are found in the right wing and in the upper room to the rear right. Most rooms within the original part of the building retain either 17th or early 18th-century bolection panelling, or a mixture of both; the panelling in the inner ground floor room of the right wing includes painted graining and stippling. A ground-floor room in the left wing has later 18th-century panelling. The staircase in the gabled projection to the rear is distinguished by its turned balusters.
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