Manor House

Manor House, West Street 10/86 8/86

ST5222 10/86 19.4.61

ILCHESTER CP WEST STREET (East side) Manor House

GV II

Large corner house. C17, modified. Rendered and colourwashed, Ham and artificial stone dressings; concrete plain tiles between coped gables; brick chimney stacks. Double roof plan; 2 storeys with basement and attics. 3 bays. Plinth, string courses, rusticated quoins, coped gables to each bay; 4-light C20 mullioned windows to ground floor, 3-light first floor and blind 2-light to second floor, only these last original albeit eroded; small Venetian window to first floor centre bay: in basement to bay 1 a 4-light mullioned window: to lower bay 2 a C20 door and fanlight in architrave under open pediment on console brackets; concrete steps up to door, with earlier wrot-iron handrail. North elevation, 2 bays to match, with C20 plain mullioned windows ground and first floors; the attic windows appear to be reserve-chamfer moulded, and have hoodmoulds; the attic window to bay 1 is 3-light and has moulded square squint-holes to sides. Interior: north west corner room on ground floor has Jacobean oak panelling with Corinthian pilasters and enriched frieze, and other ground floor rooms has C18 pine panelling and doors. The house never an actual manor house, has endured drastic external restoration and has been subdivided. No longer justifies the former higher grading. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST5210422570