ORLETON MANOR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1081810
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:: ORLETON MANOR
Statutory Address:: ORLETON MANOR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1081810
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:: ORLETON MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: ORLETON MANOR

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:: ORLETON MANOR

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Orleton
National Grid Reference:: SO 49083 66964

Details

SO 46 NE ORLETON CP -

3/84 Orleton Manor

11.6.59 - II*

Manor house. Late C16 to early C17, with some mid-C19 and early C20 alterations, restored late C20. Timber-frame with rendered infill on rubble plinth under slate roof. U-plan, hall ranged aligned north-east/ south-west. Cross-wings projecting to south-east. Cross-passage at south end of hall entered through porch, the south door blocked, oriel to north end of hall. Chimney stack in middle of north cross-wing and laterally placed on south wall of other wing. North-west front of two storeys, the cross-wing to left gabled, to right roof returned. To left of hall range a two-storey semi-octagonal bay window, to left a two-storey gabled porch. One plus three plus two windows, a 3-light casement to left, the bay with a 2-light casement to each side, a 2-light casement, a 4-light mullioned and transomed window in porch, then a 3-light and a 4-light casement. The last three windows have C17 ovolo moulded windows. Ground floor fenestration similar, the lower part of the bay restored mid-C20 when it was a porch. Entrance has a boarded door on strap hinges within a moulded architrave. Framing is close-studded with mid-rail, left-hand gable has two collars and studding. Interior the south room of the north cross-wing has re-set C17 panelling. The north wall has been moved about one metre south, leaving the fireplace in a cupboard. The room above has re-set panelling with a frieze. The fireplace has moulded stone jambs and four-centred head. Painted above it is an ogee head and terminal with repainted inscription: "Honner Him in hart and souffred on the crosse for thee and worship him". The hall has exposed moulded ceiling beams. Upstairs over the hall is a passageway, all the doorways having moulded architraves. (RCHM, 3, p 157, no 2; Parkinson, J and Ould EA: Old Cottages, Farm Houses and other half-timber buildings in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Cheshire, 1904, p1 30).

Listing NGR: SO4908366964

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Legacy System number:: 150106
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 157
Parkinson, , Ould, , Old Cottages Farm Houses and other half timbered buildings in Shropshire Herefordshire and Cheshire, (1904)

Legal

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