The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, 33, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162790
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 33, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02353/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162790
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 33, 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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 33, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sawtry
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 16653 83910
Details
TL 18 SE SAWTRY HIGH STREET (West Side) 5/59 The Manor House 28.1.58 (No 33)
II House. 1795. Local gault brick, Flemish bond, with paler bricks to front wall and more random brickwork to end and rear walls. Plain tiled, mansard roof with ridge stack between front and kitchen wing at the rear and projecting stack to the south gable end. L-plan. Two storeys and attic. Three dormers. Symmetrical facade of three first floor sixteen pane flush frame hung sashes with narrow glazing bars. The centre window is probably later. Central doorway has triangular pediment with foliate motif to the tympanum above dentil cornice and frieze with fluting, urns and a central open shell motif. Flanking demi-Ionic fluted pilasters to doorway architrave. Bi-valve door with four panels, the upper two have large round bosses and pendant husk garlands. The garden doorway in the rear wall opposite the principal doorway has a moulded surround with a pulvinated frieze and a raised and fielded panelled door which has been reversed. Interior: Entrance hall with original dentil cornice and stucco roundel ceiling piece formed by tendril foliage in bolection moulded border. Raised and fielded panelled doors, one to former dining-room also has beading to the panels. Original staircase of four flights and two landings. The balustrade has been replaced but the shaped tread ends remain. The dining-room has a fine Adam style stucco ceiling. In the centre an eight pointed star enclosing festoon husks with ribbons and pendants, medallions and a roundel centrepiece of running foliage and flowers. The outer bands of ornament include serpentine foliage with leaves and daisies, roses and pinks, and an outer border of festoons of husks looped over a bolection moulding. The cornice has bands of egg and dart and anthemion plasterwork. At first floor, one bedroom retains its cornice of beading, foliate paterae and fluting and cyma moulding above a narrow frieze of acanthus and mask medallions. Dated 1795 on beam in the roof.
Listing NGR: TL1665383910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54692
- 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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