The Manor
THE MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024410
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024410
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE 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:
- THE MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barcheston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2643839819
Details
BARCHESTON
SP2639
13/7 The Manor
13/10/66 (Formerly listed as Manor
Farmhouse)
GV II
Manor house, now house. Probably late C16/early C17 with later additions. Ashlar
limestone and coursed squared limestone rubble. Steeply pitched slate roof laid
to diminishing courses. Stone ridge and brick end stacks. Stone coped gable to
left. Complex plan. Main 2-storey early part with lower single-storey-plus-attic
range to right and brick range on stone footings to rear. Main part. 2 storeys.
3-window range. Entrance to right has panelled door with moulded wood
door-frame and overlight. 4-light stone mullioned and transomed window to left.
First floor has two 2-light and a 4-light stone mullioned and transomed windows.
Moulded band above ground floor and first floor windows. Stone plinth. Lighter
stone quoins. 2-window single-storey-plus-attic stone range to right. Interior:
Chamfered beams. 4-centred stone fireplaces on both floors. Dog-leg staircase.
Stud partition in first floor room. Stone flag floors. Plank door with 4-centred
arched wood doorway. William Sheldon is noted as setting up his looms here in
C16 to manufacture the famous Sheldon Tapestries.
(Humphreys, J. Elizabethan Tapestries, 1929; Society of Antiquaries, Second
Series, Vol XXXVIII, Archaeologia, p.272; V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol. V, 1949,
p.5).
Listing NGR: SP2643839819
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305770
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 5
Humphreys, J, Elizabethan Tapestries, (1929)
Archaeologia in Archaeologia, Vol. 38, (), 272
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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