Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. House. 7 related planning applications.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-thatch-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1969
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a manor house, built in the very late 17th and early 18th centuries. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has an artificial stone slate roof. The house has a roughly L-shaped plan, comprising a main range of five bays dating from the 18th century and an irregular range at right angles dating from the 17th century.
The west elevation of the main range features an ashlar plinth and quoins, along with a first-floor band. The central entrance has an early 18th-century eight-panel door with original wrought-iron hardware, over which is a four-pane overlight set within a bolection-moulded ashlar architrave. There are 24-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars and small panes of crown glass, each set in keyed ashlar architraves with moulded sills. A cyma reversa ashlar cornice runs along the top, and shaped kneelers are topped with an ashlar coping. External chimney stacks are present, with the one on the left being stepped. A projecting two-storey wing extends from the left end of the building. While most of this wing is a 20th-century remodelling and of little special interest, the bay containing the staircase is notable. The return side of this wing has a tall, round-arched sash window with radial glazing bars, set in a keyed architrave with large cornice capitals.
On the rear of the main range, a central blocked ashlar doorcase features architrave jambs with chamfered and rusticated detailing. There are also two bays of 20th-century 24-pane sash windows. The gabled end of the older range to the right has a glazed door in a plain ashlar surround, with an external stack to its right. The left return of the older range has tripartite sash windows on both floors, set in hollow-bolection-moulded keyed architraves, with a smaller window to their right on each floor.
The left return of the staircase wing features a portico with unfluted Doric columns supporting a Tuscan frieze and blocking course above.
The interior includes William-and-Mary style doors with six fielded panels (the central panels being the smallest), and matching window shutters. The main ground-floor rooms have early 19th-century ceilings with marginal decoration, indicating the formation of a cross-passage from the front door. The passage and room to the left display reeded decoration, while the room to the left has acanthus scroll decoration. A dogleg staircase has elaborately turned balusters. The first-floor saloon has bolection-moulded panelling and a moulded cornice that breaks forward over the west windows.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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