Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1165194
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1165194
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, PARK 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:
- MANOR HOUSE, PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Poges
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 97537 82865
Details
SU 98 SE STOKE POGES STOKE PARK (park Road) 8/637 Manor House (formerly listed as 23.9.55 Stoke Manor)
- I
Circa 1550 altered. Red brick; old tile roof; prominent chimney stacks in groups of 3 or 4 octagonal cut brick shafts. Two storeys and attic. Rear elevation of 3 bays with pilasters at corners and stringcourse at lst- floor level. Window range of 3 sashes framed in raised brickwork and with glazing bars. Three dormers with hipped tiled roofs. Garden elevation with on left hand 2 gables. First floor and in gables, paired windows in stone surrounds with mullions and leaded lights. Ground floor with 3-light casements. On right hand, 2-storey hall with a bay window, projecting stepped chimney stack and large leaded casement window. Interior: hall with elaborate fireplace; also, a late C18 marble fireplace with coupled columns in another room. History: built for Francis Earl of Huntingdon, bought 1599 and inhabited by Chief Justice Coke, (who entertained Elizabeth I here in 1601) until 1634; later home of Lady Cobham, widow of lst Viscount and friend of Gray. Gray's 'Long Story' describes the house. VCH III, p 302; CL I, p 724.
Listing NGR: SU9753782865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44232
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1908), 302
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 1, (), 724
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,
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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