Old Manor House

Old Manor House, Squires Bridge Road, Shepperton, TW17 0QG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1029672
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1969
List Entry Name:: Old Manor House
Statutory Address:: Old Manor House, Squires Bridge Road, Shepperton, TW17 0QG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1029672
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1969
List Entry Name:: Old Manor House
Statutory Address 1:: Old Manor House, Squires Bridge Road, Shepperton, TW17 0QG

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Old Manor House, Squires Bridge Road, Shepperton, TW17 0QG

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Surrey
District:: Spelthorne (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 07259 68652

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 November 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 06NE 3/47

SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, FORMER UD SQUIRES BRIDGE ROAD Old Manor House

(Formerly listed as Littleton Manor, NEW ROAD, Littleton) 9/12/69

II* Hall house. C15 east wing, extended to west in C16 and C17, front rebuilt in early C19. Timber framed, exposed close-stud frame to first floor right with lime cement infilling, whitewashed brick below. Rendered on remainder of front, red brick on return fronts and rear. Plain tiled roofs. Main front faces north, with hall to centre/left and three wings at right angles to rear. End stacks on front range with diagonal stacks to centre.

Two storeys, with attics on rear wings. Entrance front: (facing north) first floor originally jettied to right, joist ends exposed. Two twelve-pane glazing-bar sash windows to first floor in reeded surrounds, three windows below. Two similar windows on first floor centre, two windows below. Two similar windows on both floors to left. Half-glazed door to ground floor left, main door to left of centre in reeded surround with ogee intersecting tracery to transome light above. Paired doors in between with diamond-panel on lintel above. Wings to rear with C17 brick exposed. Plat bands on ground floor and first floor. C20 sash windows in old openings.

Interior: large central hall with principal beams of ceiling exposed, scroll carve corbel to spine beam. Early C18, turned baluster stair. Refixed C16 and C17 panelling in the Dining room. Subsidiary hall in east wing, C15 with beams of very thick section. Spiral staircase with stone treads to side walls. Very large and deep fireplace. Staircase window: two panels of armorial glass, one probably late C17 or early C18, said to be the arms of C16 Lady Catherine Grey, sister of Lady Jane Grey. Other probably C16, said to be the arms of Lord Hertford, her husband. First floor: many bedrooms with exposed wall and ceiling beams, some refixed dado panelling. Roof; original principal rafters in old range.

Reputedly extended by Cardinal Wolsey, once part of his estate. Associations with Lady Jane Grey and her husband Lord Hertford. William IV is said to have stayed here on a number of occasions when friendly with Lady Caroline Wood at Littleton Park. The home of the former Dutch family of Bouwens for about a century.

Listing NGR: TQ0725968652

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Legacy System number:: 288019
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.