The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, 27, MIDDLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128012
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 27, MIDDLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128012
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 27, MIDDLE 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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 27, MIDDLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thriplow and Heathfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 43904 46414
Details
TL 4246 THRIPLOW MIDDLE STREET (East Side) 13/308 No. 27 (The Manor House) 22.11.67 GV II* Manor House. 1563 carved beam, with C17 additions and alterations, said to have been restored by James Essex in late C18, kitchen addition c.1800 and C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed with roughcast panels; hipped and gabled plain tiled roofs. Red brick chimney stack with four grouped diagonal shaft partly rebuilt, side stack with grouped shafts to left hand rear wing and plain square planned ridge stack to right hand rear wing. Two storeys with attics; original continuous jetty with boxed joists; lobby entry with C19 six-panelled door with insurance fire plaque above. Two ground floor double-light windows with glazing bars, repeated at first floor with leaded light casements possibly C18 and similar central two-light casement window. Interior: Exposed substantial timber-frame; room to west with folded leaf ornament carved on main ceiling beams with double ogee and aris moulding and inscription 'ANO DNI 1563 R.E. REGINA 5'. Fireplace, restored C17 four-centred arched clunch insertion to original larger opening; room to east has secondary beams with roll and hollow chamfer moulding. Doy leg staircase, C17 closed string, with turned balusters and moulded handrail. Rooms in rear wings with early C17 panelling reset, first floor room to north-west with late C17 bolection moulded panelling of two heights, reset C17 panelling to north-east room. Some late C17 two-panelled doors. The manor house stands on the west side of the moated site of Barrinytons Manor. It was owned by Sir Christopher Hatton in 1681; in 1696 it was sold to Dr Humphrey Gower, master of St Johns, Cambridge and up to the mid C18 was used as a vacation residence by masters of the college. In 1781 it was partly demolished. R.C.H.M. Report 1950 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p.242
Listing NGR: TL4390446414
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53127
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 242
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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