The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, WATER END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1164628
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, WATER END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1164628
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, WATER END
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, WATER END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alwalton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 13482 96172
Details
ALWALTON WATER END TL 19 NW (East Side) 2/18 The Manor House 25.9.51 GV II* Manor House. Early and mid C17 with C18 and C19 alterations, C20 renovation. Coursed limestone rubble and freestone dressings. Collyweston stone slated roofs. Parapet gables with chamfered copings; end stack to left hand with brick coursing and two similar ashlar ridge stacks. Two storeys and attics, cellar below stairs, original E-plan reduced after c.1789 fire (south-west range beyond porch and cross wing demolished). Moulded wooden eaves cornice with shaped and jewelled modillions to front elevation. Two storey gabled porch to left hand with wide square-headed rusticated outer archway, rectangular plaque below gable and possibly a blocked window. Plaque inscribed WB 1789, IB 1825, WB 1849, WSB 1849 (Bradleys). Three ground floor and three first floor three-light transomed casement windows with moulded round headed wooden arch with shaped key to central light (a vernacular form of window qv Thorpe Hall, Longthorpe, Cambs). One similar first floor window to cross wing and former ground floor window with inserted C19 boarded door. Stone mullioned windows and wooden cross framed windows in side and rear elevation. Interior: C18, C19 and C20 modifications to original plan. C16 reused floor frames to east wing and C17 floor frames. Chamfered round headed arched doorway with worn limestone step to rear main range. Original C17 limestone chimney pieces with ovolo moulded cornices and slightly pointed arches to hall and first floor room. Pine cupboard and mantel, shelf to cooking hearth of entrance hall formerly a kitchen. C18 Adam style chimney piece in first floor room formerly in hall. Very fine closed string oak staircase with turned balusters and ball finials to newel posts. C17 bolection moulded panelled doors and C18 and C19 doors. Room to rear of cross passage with panelling and chimney piece from Stilton House, Stilton, Cambs. 1701, (RCHM, p260). The building shows clearly two C17 building periods, it is possible that the front elevation and side elevation to the cross wing were rebuilt in the late C17.
V.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p.133 R.C.H.M. Huntingdonshire, p.15 Pevsner. Buildings of England, p.206 Enclosure Award. 1809. HRO Inskip Ladds Records, Norris Museum, St Ives.
Listing NGR: TL1348296172
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54824
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 15
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 206
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 133
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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