Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127877
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127877
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH 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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 41838 50933
Details
TL 45SW HARSTON CHURCH STREET (South West Side)
4/127 Manor House 31.8.62 II* GV
House of C17 origin but extensively remodelled in early C18 and again early in C19 when the two cross-wings were added. Red brick and yellow brick with early C19 mansard roof, tiled, and ridge stacks. Main range, early C17 origin with facade to garden remodelled early C18. Patterned brickwork generally of pink brick stretchers and red brick headers. The door and window surrounds are of gauged red brick. Two storeys and attics. Three dormers with leaded roofs, the centre one is pedimented and has an oval window with glazing bars. One sash window and one dummy window. Moulded wood eaves, cornice and band of three courses of gauged brickwork between storeys. Centre Venetian window, early C18, with raised key block and hung sashes flanked by four flush frame hung sashes of twelve panes each in open boxing, painted white. Central doorway with early C19 reeded doorcase with boss enrichments at corners and possibly an early C18 flat hood reset. The two crosswings are of gault brick. Two storeys and attics. One dormer with leaded roof to each. One sash window and one dummy window. Two recessed hung sashes of sixteen panes each to each gable end. There is another early C19 reeded doorcase to a doorway in the right hand cross-wing and this also has a flat hood, possibly early C18 and reset. The same cross-wing has a two storey canted bay. At the rear are service wings mainly C19 and yellow brick, though there is some clunch. Interior: Evidence of the original C17 house can be seen in the main range where there are stop chamfered ceiling beams and a fine early C17 overmantel to an inglenook hearth. The overmantel is in two bays divided by a female herm figure and flanked by two male herm figures. Below is a frieze with vine leaves, a dog and a deer and other hunting motifs. The two rooms of the main range and one on the ground floor of the right hand cross-wing are lined with early C17 square, sunken panelling. That in the cross-wing is reset and incorporates a number of carved overmantels with arcading and some inlaid and painted panels, all early C17. The other cross-wing had raised and fielded panelling in three heights. R.C.H.M: Record card
Listing NGR: TL4183850933
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51532
- 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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