MANOR HOUSE

MANOR HOUSE, MILL LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1040166
Date first listed:: 26-May-1967
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE, MILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1040166
Date first listed:: 26-May-1967
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR HOUSE, MILL LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE, MILL LANE

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

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brigstock
National Grid Reference:: SP 94527 85228

Details

SP9485 15/78 26/05/67

BRIGSTOCK MILL LANE (South side) Manor House

II*

Manor house. Probably C12 origins, mainly late C15 and mid C16, altered C17/C18, restored mid C19 and extended c.1887 by Gotch and Saunders. Squared coursed limestone and ironstone with ashlar dressings and Collyweston slate and C19 plain-tile roofs. Hall with cross wing forming L-shape plan with additions. 2 storeys with attic. Main front is irregular 6 bays with bay to left breaking forward as 2-storey gabled cross wing with attic. 3 bays to right of centre are original 2-storey hall. Bay to left of hall breaks forward as a 3-storey gabled porch corresponding with the original screens passage. Small doorway with 4-centred arch head. Flanking, 2-stage, clasping buttresses. Upper stage of porch in ashlar with 3-light first and second floor stone mullion windows. 2-window range of hall to right of porch has 2-light stone mullion windows with 4-centred arch heads, to ground and first floor; each has transom and cusped-head lights. Bay to right of hall is a later build and has one-window range of 3-light stone mullion windows to ground and first floor. Bay immediately left of porch has similar 2-light windows. Cross wing to far left has 4-light stone mullion windows with king mullion. 2-stage buttress between hall and bay to right. Chamfered plinth. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers and ashlar stacks at ridge and end. Range set back to far left is c.1887 in similar style with 3- and 4-light stone mullion windows. 2-storey flat-roof link corridor, of same date, at intersection of C16 and C19 wings. Rear elevation of C19 range has 3 gables with 2-, 3- and 4-light stone mullion windows. Rear elevation of hall range is also entrance front. 3-window range; 2 windows to right are similar to those to main front of hall. Window to ground floor left is a 6-light stone mullion window with trefoil-head lights. Similar 2-light window above. Projecting porch to right is 2 storeys, 2-window range of 2-light stone mullion windows. Return wall of porch has doorway with 4-centred arch head and roll moulded surround. 3-light stone mullion window, above, has trefoil-head lights. Parapet wall with strapwork decoration. The porch is probably built with re-used masonry. Elevation at right angles to right of porch is mid C16 and C17 with gable and 2-, 3- and 4-light stone mullion windows. Ashlar gable parapets and stone stacks at ridge and end. The C19 range has plain-tile roof. Interior: Jacobean staircase with half landings, turned balusters and tall newels, probably partly reconstructed C19, Lower hall has spine beams, and reset C17 panelling said to have come from Warkton Church, restored C19. Library at far right of main front has fireplace with 4-centred arch head. Adam room to left of main front has Adam style marble fireplace and Adam style plaster mouldings, probably C19. Kitchen, to rear of Clb range, has large open fireplace. First floor hall has 3 arched braced roof trusses and fragments of stained glass in windows. Room to first floor far right of main front has fireplace with Roccoco style overmantle and Delft tile hearth, probably reset. First floor rooms over kitchen and Adam room have fireplaces with 4-centred arch heads. The present hall was probably built by Thomas Montague late C15 and the building extended by Roger Montague mid C16. It is suggested that the hall and porch roofs were raised and a gallery inserted. The Manor passed to the Dukes of Buccleuch who carried out mid C19 restoration and late C19 extensions. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.122; Gotch, J.A: Squires Homes and Other Old Buildings of Northamptonshire, p.9; Carpenter, R.H., St. Andrews Church, Brigstock, p.9 to 11).

Listing NGR: SP9452785228

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

Legacy System number:: 232801
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Carpenter, R H , St Andrew's Church Brigstock9-11
Gotch, J A , Squires Homes and Other Old Buildings of Northamptonshire, (1939)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 122

Legal

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