Timber Framed House Attached To North Side Of Manor House

ASHBY ST.LEDGERS MAIN STREET SP5768 (East side) 17/8 Timber framed house attached 18/01/68 to north side of Manor House (Formerly listed as Ancillary buildings at Ashby St. Ledgers Manor)

GV II*

House. C17, from Cow Street, Ipswich, re-erected in 1903 under the supervision of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Timber framed with close studding and some diagonal braces; tile roof, brick stacks. L-plan. Re-erected on sloping ground with the addition of a stone basement to the north side and two right bays. L-plan. 2 2 storeys and attic. 4 bays with oversailing upper floor. Central doorway with moulded wood frame with 4-centred arch, the spandrels carved with foliage. Rectangular panel above carved with a pediment framed by draperies and foliage, Two wood mullioned and transomed windows with moulded wood frames to left, each is of two lights but with 4 small arched lights above the transom. 2 mullioned and transomed bay windows to right, with similar small arched lights in the head. 3-light first floor windows with moulded wood mullions and transoms in the left bay and second bay from right. Other first floor windows are similar, of 2 2 lights. Pilaster and bracket on right angle carved with blind tracery and quatrefoils. Wing projecting to right at rear, C17, similar materials. 2 storeys and basement. 2 bays. The house was exhibited at White City as a fine example of half timber construction. It was purchased by Lord Wimbourne and re-erected at Ashby St. Ledgers under protest from Lutyens. Interior: Several corbelled stone fireplaces of varied designs. 1st floor hall with hammerbeam roof and traceried spandrels, considerably renewed. Ground-floor, principal room (garden side) with framed ceiling, a Renaissance medallion panelled cornice, and large fireplace with terns, and heraldic device to overmantel panel flanked by caryatids.' (C. Hussey, Ashby St. Ledgers Manor House, Country Life, July 1951).

Listing NGR: SP5733368308