Manor Court House
MANOR COURT HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083279
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Court House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR COURT HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
- 1999-09-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/01645/34
- Rights:
- © Mrs Janet Roworth. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083279
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR COURT HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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:
- MANOR COURT HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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:
- SE7830103788
Details
SE 7803-7903
20/83
27.9.51
EPWORTH
MARKET PLACE
(west side)
Manor Court House
GV
II
Court House, now offices and library. 1802-3 for Alexander Johnson, Lord of
the Manor. Later C19 rear addition and infilling to ground-floor arcade.
Red brick, with front of fine red stock brick in Flemish bond with ashlar
dressings; infilling of red brick with yellow brick and ashlar dressings.
Rendered plinth to front. Welsh slate roof. Rectangular on plan, with
later coach-house outshut to rear. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Chamfered plinth.
Ground-floor arcade of 5 painted ashlar keyed and channelled elliptical
arches on brick pilasters with moulded ashlar bases and raised imposts.
Round-headed entrance to fourth bay has step to 2-fold 8-fielded-panel door
and 3-pane fanlight beneath occulus, in round-headed recessed panel with
3-course yellow brick header arch. Flanking arches each have inserted
recessed panels containing tripartite windows with stepped round-headed
lights with glazing bars, raised ashlar imposts, and yellow brick header
arches. Rectangular clock face above entrance inscribed: EMI 1837.
19 82
First floor: slightly recessed 12-pane sashes in architraves, with narrow
glazing bars and projecting sills beneath keyed and rusticated cambered
wedge lintels. Moulded eaves cornice. Inappropriate C20 gutter. Hipped
roof. 3 rear wall stacks. Right return has segmental-headed recessed panel
to ground floor. Rear: 12-pane sash stairwindow to first floor left; coach-
house outshut has segmental-headed carriage entrance with double board
doors, segmental-headed window (boarded-up at time of resurvey) and round-
headed door to left. Interior. Entrance hall has original open-well
closed-string staircase with moulded handrail, column balusters and newel
posts. Moulded cornices, 4-panelled doors in architraves throughout. The
Court House has been used by The Epworth Mechanics Institute since 1837, and
houses their library in the hall on the first floor. The rear outshut
formerly housed the town's fire engine. An illustration of c1858 shows the
open ground-floor arcade with plain iron railings. W Read, History of the
Isle of Axholme, 1858, p 130.
Listing NGR: SE7830103788
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165144
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Read, W, History of the Isle of Axholme, (1858), 130
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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