This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SE 52 NE TEMPLE HIRST MAIN STREET (south side) 4/20 Temple Manor (formerly listed as 17.11.66 Temple Hirst) - II Preceptory of the Knights Templars, now house and public house. C15 - C16 octagonal tower. Probable late C17 house re-using medieval materials including a reset doorway. Extensive alterations and rebuilding c1980 including rebuilding of rear wall and part of first-floor front wall and unsympathetic extension to left. Tower of reddish-orange narrow brick with pinkish-brown brick house in irregular English garden wall bond with magnesian limestone dressings and pantile and plain tile roof. 2 storeys, 6 bays, the sixth recessed slightly and embracing octagonal stair tower, with central 2-storey porch. Plinth. Quoins. Stepped buttress to left.
Entrance to third bay, a C20 plank door within doorcase of single order of nook-shafts with C20 eroded capitals supporting C13 moulded arch. French windows to fifth bay under soldier arch. Mainly replacement 12-pane sashes, otherwise 6- and 9-pane casements. First-floor dentilled band to third - sixth bays. Dentil eaves band. Ashlar coping and kneelers. Ridge and end stack. Stair tower: stepped limestone plinth. C20 entrance with plank door. Renewed openings with chamfered limestone architraves. C20 crenellations and spire. Interior. Oak newel staircase to tower otherwise completely renewed. N Pevsner, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, p 509.
Rev J N Worsfold, History of Haddlesey: its Past and Present, 1894, p 22, p 46-8 (illus).
Listing NGR: SE5967425140
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0549 IOE Records taken by Grahame E Davidson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Grahame E. Davidson. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Davidson, Grahame E.
Rights Holder: Davidson, Grahame E.
Ashlar, Brick, Limestone, Magnesian Limestone, Pantile, Tile, Medieval Templars Preceptory, Tudor Religious Ritual And Funerary, Elizabethan Preceptory, Religious House, House, Monument (By Form), Domestic, Dwelling
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