Reedness Manor House

REEDNESS MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103280
Date first listed:
16-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Reedness Manor House
Statutory Address:
REEDNESS MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103280
Date first listed:
16-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Reedness Manor House
Statutory Address 1:
REEDNESS MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
REEDNESS MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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

District:
East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Reedness
National Grid Reference:
SE 80126 22942

Details

REEDNESS MAIN STREET SE 82 SW (south side) 6/38 Reedness Manor House GV II House. Mid C18, incorporating some reused C17 brick, with later C18 and early - mid C19 alterations and additions, C19 re-fronting, and minor C20 alterations. Brick; front pebbledashed, with sandstone ashlar dressings. Welsh slates to outer slopes of roof to front range and of rear wing; pantiles to inner slopes to front roof; Yorkshire slate roof to rear extension, and eaves course to inner slope of rear wing. 1-shaped on plan: original 2-room central entrance-hall north front with single-room kitchen wing to rear right; later C18 single-room additions to wing and to inner angle, forming double-depth front range; C19 single-room extension to rear wing. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Plinth. C19 ashlar porch has panelled square columns with foliate capitals carrying plain entablature and flat hood. 6-panel door (top 4 panels glazed) and plain overlight in reveal and plain wood surround. Full-height canted bays to either side have 4-pane sashes in architraves with chamfered ashlar sills and mullions. Central first-floor 4-pane sash with ashlar sill. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Double-span roof. Stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers. Corniced end stacks. Right return: plinth, reused C17 brick to lower courses of front section, straight joints between builds. Single 16-pane sash and 3 tripartite sashes to each floor with glazing bars in flush wooden architraves beneath segmental arches. Stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Stone-coped gable with shaped kneelers to main range, hipped roof to lower 2-storey right extension. Interior. C18 details include: open well staircase with ramped handrail, scrolled brackets, and slender column- on-vase balusters with square knops (curtail step and newel removed); dentilled cornice and delicate plasterwork fan to stairhall ceiling; dentilled cornice to front left room; drawing room, rear left, with fielded- panel dado, moulded dado rail, plaster frieze with urns and festoons, dentilled cornice, and ornate composition chimney-piece with panelled pilasters, dentilled cornice and fluted frieze with urns and festoons; bedroom, rear left, with plaster cornice, pilastered chimney-piece with fluted frieze and dentilled cornice, and pair of flanking cupboards with 6-fielded-panel doors in architraves; chimney-piece to bedroom, front left, with dentilled cornice and composition ornament; dentilled chimney-piece to bedroom, rear right; 6-fielded-panel doors in architraves. C19 pilastered arch and moulded cornices to entrance hall and other main rooms, that to ground-floor front right with foliate frieze; two C19 stone chimney-pieces. Triple round-arched oven range to back kitchen. The front was formerly stuccoed and jointed in imitation of ashlar.

Listing NGR: SE8012622942

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
164897
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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