Manor House

Manor House, Church Road, Shepperton, TW17 9JR

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1029694
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1969
List Entry Name:
Manor House
Statutory Address:
Manor House, Church Road, Shepperton, TW17 9JR
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1029694
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1969
List Entry Name:
Manor House
Statutory Address 1:
Manor House, Church Road, Shepperton, TW17 9JR

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Manor House, Church Road, Shepperton, TW17 9JR

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:
TQ0779366616

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 November 2024 to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 06 NE
3/8

SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, FORMER UD
Shepperton
CHURCH ROAD
Manor House

9/12/69

GV
II*
House. Circa 1820; said to have been built for a Mr James Scott. Incised painted stucco with hipped slate roof. Two storeys over basement to left, lower two storey range to right; C20 service range to right end. Garden front to south with three bay return to east, entrance front now to north.

Entrance front: eaves soffit. Two twelve-pane, glazing-bar sash windows to first floor left; tripartite glazing-bar sash window below. Two six-pane sashes to attic on right, nineteen-pane glazing-bar sash window and one tripartite glazing-bar sash to first floor. Three twelve-pane glazing-bar sashes below. Shallow break to centre with arched staircase window rising through upper floors. C20 entrance porch with six-panel door to centre in fixed flanking windows. Wide C20 pedimented portico on two marble-painted columns with abstracted triglyph frieze over. Ribbed lead roofed extensions stepping down to right.

Left hand return front (east): three first floor twelve-pane sash windows; angle bay to ground floor left. South, garden, front: five bays. Four twelve-pane glazing-bar sash windows to first floor, casement to first floor left. Central angle bay with tent-roofed verandah on either side supported by paired, lotus-leaf capital thin columns; tripartite sashes behind on either side.

Interior:- Main reception rooms, drawing room, tent room and dining room - show mid-C19 decoration of high quality. Panelled dining room ceiling with low relief plaster mouldings and ornately moulded cornice. Six-panelled doors with ornately moulded frieze, swags with putti over. Drawing room: trompe-l'oeil arrangement of panels framed by pilasters ornamented with foliate and floral motifs in a classical style. Doors with ornamented panels and moulded friezes, each with a crown putto set in a medallion framed by tendrils and flowers; marble fireplace with over-mantle in the form of a large mirror set in an ornately carved frame of pilasters with tendrils and flowers. Cornice arched over a relief of flowers in a vase. Two full, flat-arched window mirrors, each crowned with swags and a mask head in relief set in a medallion. A wide flat arch with scrolls leads out of the drawing room into: Tent Room: ceiling in the form of a trompe-l'oeil canopy, the walls with pilaster framed pointed panels and ornamented with swags and with inset painted busts of Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott.

Listing NGR: TQ0779366616

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
287979
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Manor House

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