Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1126449
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1126449
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, 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:
- MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Soham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 59388 73097
Details
TL 5973 SOHAM HIGH STREET (West Side) 13/56 Manor House 1.12.51 GV II*
House, c.1730. Narrow, grey gault brick, Flemish bond to front wall and English bond to side and rear walls. Only slightly altered and added to in C19. Parapetted, hipped roof of plain tiles with two ridge stacks. Double pile plan with opposing front and rear entries. Two storeys and attics with band between storeys and another at eaves height, now removed. Three dormers. Symmetrical elevation in five bays. Segmental arches to four recessed hung sashes of twelve panes each with original glazing bars, and a round-headed arch to a similar central hung sash. Central pedimented doorway with doorcase of fluted pilasters and Doric entablature and frieze. Round-headed arch to doorway. Door of six raised and fielded panels with a fanlight with radial glazing bars. Early C19 cast iron railings with honeysuckle motif and acorn finials to piers. Interior. Much of the original detail is intact. One ground floor room has raised and fielded panelling in two heights with a fine cornice of dentil and other ornament. Equally fine are the shouldered fireplace surround with a carved pulvinated frieze and above a shouldered and ramped overmantel with rosettes to the corners. This room also has a pedimented door with a shouldered surround. The dining room is lined with raised and fielded panelling but the cornice is less richly ornamented, and the pulvinated frieze to the fireplace is unmoulded. The door- ways have shouldered surrounds and the doorway to the second wing has a swan's neck pediment. The hall and landing have round-headed arches with panelled archivolts and keyblocks. The hall floor is paved with stone and there is raised and fielded panelling below the dado. The open-well staircase is of two flights and landing. Open-string with turned balusters with moulded and swept rail, fluted newels with curtail and scroll tread brackets.
Listing NGR: TL5938873097
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48864
- 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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