MANOR HOUSE

MANOR HOUSE, CHAPEL STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1191298
Date first listed:: 23-May-1967
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE, CHAPEL STREET

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1191298
Date first listed:: 23-May-1967
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR HOUSE, CHAPEL STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE, CHAPEL STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Warmington
National Grid Reference:: TL 07703 91284

Details

WARMINGTON CHAPEL STREET TL0791 (North side) 15/147 Manor House 23/05/67 GV II*

Manor house. Datestone WA/1677, extended C19 and mid C20. Regular coursed limestone with ashlar facade and C20 plain tile roof. Originally shallow H-shape plan. 2 storeys with attic. Main front is a 5-window range. Gabled end bays break forward slightly. Central 6-panel, part-glazed, door has moulded and eared architrave with a central panel below a moulded cornice. Oval, first floor, window, above door, has moulded surround. Other ground and first floor windows are 2-light stone mullion windows, with transoms and cyma-moulded architrave with fascias. Similar, 2-light, attic windows, in each gable. 2 hipped roof dormers with casement windows. Chamfered plinth and raised band between floors. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers. Ashlar ridge stacks have moulded cornices; the left stack is rendered. Lozenge shape datestone in left gable, similar blank panel in right gable. Elevation to right has a 3-light stone mullion window to first floor, with a C20 doorway below, which has a re-used moulded stone surround. Elevation to left has casement windows with wood lintels. Rear elevation has central, gabled, stair turret and Cl9 single-storey extensions flanking. Interior: C17 staircase, with half landing, has turned balustrade and panelled newels with ball finials. The entrance hall and drawing room, to right, have C17 bolection moulded panelling with matching wooden fireplace surrounds. The dining room and the kitchen, to the left of the entrance hall, both have remains of open fireplaces. Stop-chamfered spine beams. Room to first floor right has fireplace with a bolection moulded and eared surround, short pilasters and bolection moulded panel to the overmantle. Room to first floor left of centre has a C17 fireplace with moulded stone surround and sunk panels. C17 and C18 panelled doors. The back staircase to the far left hand corner probably occupies the position of the original back staircase which only gave access to the first floor room to the far left and the attics. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p163)

Listing NGR: TL0770391284

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 232704
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire, (1984)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.