WITLEY MANOR

WITLEY MANOR, B 4197

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1082691
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: WITLEY MANOR
Statutory Address:: WITLEY MANOR, B 4197

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Date:: 2000-08-23
Reference:: IOE01/01439/21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1082691
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: WITLEY MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: WITLEY MANOR, B 4197

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:: WITLEY MANOR, B 4197

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Witley
National Grid Reference:: SO 75365 64364

Details

SO 76 SE GREAT WITLEY CP B 4197 (west side)

6/72 Witley Manor

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GV II

House. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber-framed, rendered brick and lath and plaster infill, tiled roof, brick shafts with sandstone base to main stack, sandstone lining to cellar. Roughly L-plan with right forward projecting wing and later extension projecting to the right at rear, main entrance to the left, main stack at rear of right wing now enclosed, further stack at rear and third later stack to left gable end. Main elevation: 2 storeys with right gabled projecting. wing of 2 framed bays, central gabled framed-bay and 2 further bays to left with later raised roof. Irregular fenestration: first floor has C20 metal easement to left, single casement. and 3-light ovolo moulded mullioned window with metal casements and leading to central ground bay and similar window to right wing,- ground floor has 2-light leaded casement to left and 5-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window with leaded metal casements to right wing; C20 partly glazed door to central gabled bay with stone steps up. Framing: 2 panels from'sill to mid- rail and 2 panels from mid-rail to wall-plate, diagonal bracing from sill to post at right gable end; queen struts and V-struts in gables, continuous weather planking at lintels. Toward rear of right wing stack has 2-star plan shafts linked by arch. Resited heavy ledge_door at rear of later extension, Interior: fine cross-beamed ceiling with some ovolo moulded chamfers; C17 panelling in main room of right wing, altered Tudor-arched stone fireplace has large wooden overmantel with Jacobean strapwork design. The window con- tains some stained glass panes with heraldic designs possibly C19. Documented as having pair cruck blades, not visible June 1984 (CBA Cruck Catalogue, no 42, 1981). Formerly known as Wall House.

Listing NGR: SO7536564364

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Legacy System number:: 152305
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Alcock, N W, 'Council for British Archaeology Research Report' in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, , Vol. 1981, (1981), 42

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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.