Beanacre Old Manor
BEANACRE OLD MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1021755
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Beanacre Old Manor
- Statutory Address:
- BEANACRE OLD MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1021755
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Beanacre Old Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEANACRE OLD MANOR
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BEANACRE OLD MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Melksham Without
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 90161 65783
Details
ST 96 NW MELKSHAM WITHOUT BEANACRE (west side)
2/165 Beanacre Old Manor
GV I
Manor house. Late C14 to early C18. Late C14 open hall and solar, remodelled in early C16. Chapel to rear of c1500. Early C18 service wing to left. Rubblestone with stone slate roofing. Projecting ashlar stacks to hall, solar and chapel. Plan: Hall with wings to sides and rear. 1 storey with attic, 2 windows. Entrance front has wooden Medieval door case to left bay of hall. To right is one 3-light wooden mullioned window, separated from door by buttress opposing central truss. Two 3-light gabled dormers to roof are later. Wing to right renovated 1931, has one storey and attic with door to left and one 3-light mullioned window to right, with 4-light window in Cotswold-type dormer. Gable end has inserted door and casement with 3-light mullioned window above. Wing to left of entrance is early C18 facade of 2-storey 3-window service wing. Windows are 1-light, 5-light and 2-light cyma mullions to ground with three 2-light above. Garden front has entrance of 4-centred arched door with carved drip mould. To right is chapel with pointed arched window with drip mould and one square headed casement. Above door is 4-light arched oriel window, in timber of C18. Transverse wing to chapel has 2-light window to first floor above C19 porched door. Projecting stack to right. To left and set back is early C16 facade of C14 hall and solar, having 2-light arched window to hall and 4-light arch headed window with king mullion and drip mould with carved terminals to left. Above in gable of solar is 2-light arched, window with drip mould and carved terminals. This roof has coping with saddleback. Hall stack to right is stepped. Interior: 2-bay open hall has arch-braced collar roof, with two tiers of wind braces to purlins. 4-centred arched door to left of 4-centred arched fireplace. Solar roof as hall. Chapel has pointed barrel vaulted roof and 4-centred arched fireplace restored by Harold Brakspear, 1931. The dating of the hall and solar to c1360 was made by Harold Brakspear, but the arch braced collar trusses may be C15. Some good renovations of 1931 by H. Brakspear. (Country Life, 4 Dec. 1937, by Arthur Oswald).
Listing NGR: ST9016065788
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 314382
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 4 December, (1937)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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