Manor House
MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188322
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE
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- Date:
- 1999-10-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/00541/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188322
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wistow
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 63954 96657
Details
WISTOW NEWTON HARCOURT SP 69 NW 2/125 19.10.51 Manor House GV II Small country house. Earlier C17, altered C19. Rendered timber framing with brick nogging above coursed rubble stone ground floor. Swithland slate roof with brick and stone ridge and side stacks. H plan. Front has 4 gables.2.1/2 storeys of 5 wooden mullion and transom windows with leaded lights: 2 on left gable, 1 each on centre recessed gables, and 5-light on right gable. On ground floor, from left, painted wooden mullion 5-light canted bay, 2-light wooden mullion and transom window either side gabled porch and 2-leaved door, and 4-light stone mullion and transom window with hood mould. 3-light casement with leaded lights in both wing attics and similar central dormer. 1.1/2 storey wing on right end.Garden front to rear has 2 and 3-light leaded casements, a 5-light canted bay on ground floor of each gable and 1 storey earlier C19 brick vestibule spanning recessed centre. 4 15-pane windows and central French window with overlight. Inside are chamfered beams with curved braces in cellar, and reset C17 panelling. The house was partly rebuilt after a fire in the 1830's but is said to retain timber framing behind the render. V.C.H., Vol.V and Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SP6395496657
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191148
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Leicester, (1964)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)
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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