Wesley Manse
WESLEY MANSE, 37, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083278
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wesley Manse
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEY MANSE, 37, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083278
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wesley Manse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESLEY MANSE, 37, HIGH STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEY MANSE, 37, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Epworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 78144 03851
Details
SE 7803-7903 EPWORTH HIGH STREET (south side)
20/79 No 37 (Wesley Manse)
GV II
Manse. 1888-9 by Charles Bell. Rock-faced ashlar to front and sides, yellow brick to rear; ashlar dressings throughout. Welsh slate roof. L-shaped on plan. Forms east side of courtyard. 2 storeys. North front has projecting gabled wing to left and single-window range to right with single-storey entrance porch in angle. Chamfered plinth, quoins, flush sill bands to ground and first floors. Porch has buttress with offsets to right angle, step to chamfered rounded-trefoil arch beneath pointed hoodmould with foliate stops, board door with ornate wrought ironwork, coped gable with shaped kneelers and trefoil finial; right side has sill string course, trefoiled window beneath pointed hoodmould with carved stops. Gabled wing to left has projecting ground-floor square bay window with 3 lights to front and single lights to sides beneath moulded cornice and hipped roof; pair of narrow first-floor ashlar windows beneath segmental relieving arch; chamfered round-headed slit light to attic. Right return forms west front: single-bay with porch to left, and twin projecting single-bay gabled ranges to right. Central range breaks forward, with a pair of narrow sashes beneath segmental relieving arches; right range has 3-light window beneath segmental relieving arch. Both ranges have 2-light first-floor windows with flush lintel bands beneath segmental-pointed relieving arches; moulded string courses, blind quatrefoil panels to gables. Range set back to left has single-light window beside porch. East side has small trefoiled light beneath pointed hoodmould with carved stops. All windows (apart from trefoil lights) have sashes with 4 or 6 small panes over 2 or 4 larger panes, chamfered mullions and reveals, quoined surrounds. Coped gables with shaped kneelers and trefoil finials throughout. Crested ridge tiles. Stack to rear with ashlar string course and shaft. Interior contains original open-well staircase with turned balusters, moulded plaster cornices, panelled doors in architraves. Part of an unusually ornate group of Methodist buildings, erected in commemoration of the founder of Methodism, John Wesley (1703-91), and the Wesley family of Epworth.
Listing NGR: SE7814403851
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165140
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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