MANOR HOUSE BUILDINGS

MANOR HOUSE BUILDINGS, 29, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1074415
Date first listed:: 25-Jul-1952
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE BUILDINGS, 29, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1074415
Date first listed:: 25-Jul-1952
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR HOUSE BUILDINGS, 29, HIGH STREET

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:: MANOR HOUSE BUILDINGS, 29, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 73235 87403

Details

HIGH STREET 1. 5303 (West Side) No 29 (Manor House Buildings) SP 7387 1/16 25.7.52. II* GV

2. 1738 but with earlier rear. Fine facade of red brick with stone dressings. 3 storeys, the upper storey has Roman Doric pilasters flanking centre windows. Stone quoins. Stone capped brick chimney stacks. Triglyph frieze and moulded pediment over centre. Moulded stone cornice and brick parapet with stone panels. 5 windows (with a small window over north side passage). Centre windows all with moulded stone shouldered architraves, centre 1st floor has a pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice. All other windows have segmental arches and moulded stone architraves. Ground floor altered in 1897. Central doorway with rusticated pilasters and segmental arched windows. Fine staircase with 3 fluted and turned balusters on each step. Carved and ramped handrail with scrolled ends. Panelling. C18 panelled rooms at front of house, one with enriched cornice, another with plainer cornice. Plasterwork, landing ceiling has 2 large plaster roundels with low relief moulding. Archway. Fireplaces and 6-panelled doors. Rear wing has roof with substantial purlins and possibly crucks (now clad in modern timber). Rear has 2-storey Queen Anne stone facade facing cobbled courtyard. Reset beam dated 1603. Ref.V.C.H

Listing NGR: SP7323587403

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Sources

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Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Leicester, (1907)

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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.