The Manor House Taylors and Rockingham Motorcycles

THE MANOR HOUSE TAYLORS AND ROCKINGHAM MOTORCYCLES, MARKET HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1035591
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:
The Manor House Taylors and Rockingham Motorcycles
Statutory Address:
THE MANOR HOUSE TAYLORS AND ROCKINGHAM MOTORCYCLES, MARKET HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1035591
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
The Manor House Taylors and Rockingham Motorcycles
Statutory Address 1:
THE MANOR HOUSE TAYLORS AND ROCKINGHAM MOTORCYCLES, MARKET HILL

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
THE MANOR HOUSE TAYLORS AND ROCKINGHAM MOTORCYCLES, MARKET HILL

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Southam
National Grid Reference:
SP 41886 61797

Details

SOUTHAM MARKET HILL SP4161 (East side) 13/71 The Manor House: 'Taylors' and 07/01/52 'Rockingham Motorcycles' (Formerly listed as Premises occupied by J. Shaw)

GV II

House. Mid/late C16, with mid C18 additions. Whitewashed coursed stone to ground floor with rendered timber-framed first floor, the herringbone and decorative-brace framing beneath render. C20-tile roof with large stone ridge stack with four C17 flues diagonally set. L-shaped plan with jettied first floor. 2 storeys plus attic; 2-window range to west and to north. Ground floor windows to west, north and east are each of 4 lights with hollow-chamfered mullions and transom, with king mullion. C19 canted bay shop front to ground floor right of west facade. First floor windows to north are of 5 lights with ovolo-moulded wood mullions and transom, and are supported on moulded brackets. First floor of west facade has C18 bay with pediment, with a C19 three-light casement to right. Leaded-light casements in gables to north and west. C20 panelled/glazed door with C17 doorcase to west. Jettied first floor and jettied gables have moulded sole-plates and are supported on carved scroll and figure brackets. Moulded bargeboards to north, with carved vine-scroll bargeboards to west. C18 range to right has 2-light casements to first floor with glazed door and C20 plate-glass shop front to ground floor. C20 extension to right. Early C18 outbuilding range to rear, of brick in flenish bond with flared headers and stone quoins. C20 garage doors and shop front. Interior: ground and first floor rooms have ovolo- and hollow-moulded spine beams with stops. One first floor room has a fireplace with four-centred head and moulded surround with carved rosette stops. Timber-framed partition wall to first floor. C16 roof remains, With purlins and braces visible. C18 range has stop-chamfered spine beams. Outbuilding range to rear has Queen-post roof and chamfered spine beams with small stepped stops. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Val.VI, p.220).

Listing NGR: SP4188661797

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307201
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Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1951), 220

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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