Little Shelford Manor
LITTLE SHELFORD MANOR, MANOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127852
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Little Shelford Manor
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE SHELFORD MANOR, MANOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127852
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Little Shelford Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE SHELFORD MANOR, MANOR ROAD
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:
- LITTLE SHELFORD MANOR, MANOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Shelford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45548 51810
Details
TL 4551 LITTLE SHELFORD MANOR ROAD (East Side)
19/168 Little Shelford Manor 31.8.62 II*
Small country house built mostly in 1746 for William Finch but with part dating from late C17. Fenestration altered late C19 and stonework restored C20. Grey brick with Ketton stone dressings. Roof of house concealed by brick parapet with stone panels. Four end stacks. Plan of main range with flanking service wings linked to the house by curved walls. House of basement two principal storeys and an attic storey. Five bays, including slightly projecting centre bay. Square heads to recessed hung sashes, mid-late C19 and to the centre windows which have shouldered surrounds. Garden elevation has Ketton stone doorcase and some of the hung sashes retain their glazing bars. Service wing to left hand, late C17, of gault brick with some red brick in rear wall. English bond. Hipped, plain tile roof with moulded wood eaves cornice and two side stacks. Two storeys and attic. Three hipped dormers. Symmetrical elevation of three cross-frame casements in segmental niches. Central doorway with one window at left hand, now blocked. Service wing at right hand now a garage, was built in 1746 in a style similar to that of the other service wing. Gault brick with hipped, tiled roof. Two storeys and attics. Three hipped dormers. Segmental arches to three blind window openings. Interior: Some of the details of the 1746 house survive despite alterations in C19 and a fire in C20. One rear room has a shouldered fireplace surround with an enriched pulvinated frieze and flanking Ionic pilasters. The overmantel is shouldered. Another room at the front is lined with raised panelling and the cornice is enriched with modillions and rosettes. The fireplace and overmantel also have shouldered surrounds. The hall has diagonally set paving with black setts, and a round headed arch with scrolled key block and fluted pilasters leads from the hall to the stairbay. The principal staircase is C19 but the back staircase is 1746, closed string with slender urn shaped balusters and a moulded rail. The late C17 service wing has an inserted staircase similar to that of the back staircase in the house. The roof is of staggered, butt purlin construction. The oher service wing has a room at first floor which is open to the roof, a reset early C17 door and a casement window of six lights. An earlier house on the site is associated in the early C17 with Sir Toby Palavicino and the family of Henry Wriothesley, Duke of Southampton and patron of Shakespeare. R.C.H.M: record card Cambs Record Office: Map collection V.C.H: (Camb) Vol. VIII p.222
Listing NGR: TL4554851810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51572
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 222
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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