Old Manor House
OLD MANOR HOUSE, DUCK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1183551
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Old Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD MANOR HOUSE, DUCK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1183551
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Old Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD MANOR HOUSE, DUCK 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:
- OLD MANOR HOUSE, DUCK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sutton Veny
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 90532 41565
Details
SUTTON VENY DUCK STREET ST 94 SW (north side) 4/217 Old Manor House 11.9.68
GV II*
Rectory, now private house. Mid C14 hall house, altered late C17 and additional wings added 1850s by Rector G. Powell, restored 1921 by D.E.W. Cowie. Dressed limestone, tiled roof, stone slates to rear pitch, ashlar stacks. Three-bay hall with east solar cross range and services and C19 wing to west. Two-storey and attic, 8 windows. Double cyma-moulded pointed doorway with ribbed door to through passage to left of hall, hall has buttress with offsets and two 2-light pointed windows to right, one an original C14 with Decorated tracery, the other is of 1921, to left is former service bay with 16-pane flush sash to ground and first floor, two hipped dormers with sashes to attic. Attached to left is 1850s range with two 12-pane sashes to ground and first floor, two hipped dormers with casements to attic. To right is cross range with early C20 planked door and casements to ground floor and 12-pane sash and 3- light casement to first, hipped roof. Rear has two 15-pane sashes and 12-pane sash to C19 left range and two restored C14 pointed windows to hall, moulded pointed doorway to through passage and round-arched stair sash window to right, 1850s service wing to right has 12-pane sashes to rear and to right return. Interior: Fine 3-bay open hall with screens passage to west half- bay with gallery over, two arch-braced collar trusses with upper crown post to collar purlin and scissor rafter roof, moulded wall plates and chamfered arch-braces, curved wind bracing to purlins. Tudor-arched stone hall fireplace with herringbone brick back. Closed tie-beam truss separates screens passage from services, two stone pointed doorways, one blocked, to services. RB/1693 incised on stone corbel to chamfered beam probably dates the insertion of a floor or the improvement of the services. Stairs and remainder of interior altered during C20, the restoration of 1921 included the removal of an inserted floor in hall and removal of C19 sashes to hall and replacement with C14-style windows similar to one surviving window on front. Sir William Nicholson, the painter, lived here during the 1920s. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965; B. Watkin, Sutton Veny Guide, 1985).
Listing NGR: ST9053241565
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313439
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1965)
Watkin, B, Sutton Veny Guide, (1985)
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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