Manor House
MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200259
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200259
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1955
- 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.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tockenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 03575 81147
Details
SU 08 SW TOCKENHAM TOCKENHAM WICK (east side)
4/96 Manor House
17.1.55
GV II*
Manor House, c1600, built for Richard Danvers, with major extensions 1904 & 1912. Limestone rubble coursed, quoins and lower part of porch ashlar. Stone.tiled roofs. Main Block, 2-storey and attic, symmetrical, reception rooms either side of central entrance and rear wing. 2-storey porch. Forward wing on left, C20, 5 bays, 2-storey with attics. Independently constructed C18 brick library on right of main block, also with stone tiled roof. Main elevation ovolo moulded stone mullioned windows, 3-light with transom to ground floor, 3-light to first floor and 2-light to attic, all with hollow moulded labels. Attic windows set in large gables. Porch also with 2-light mullioned windows, gabled with square block finial carved with name Matthew Smith and date, 1698. Small closet window at left end. Central stack and subsidiary stack between two rooms of rear wing. Forward wing built to match main block in all details, making fine group. Interior: All rooms of main building fully panelled, with heavy cornice and broken forward in stages over fine chimneypieces. Stone fireplace with carved spandrels to end room of rear wine. Good chimneypiece to library. Elyard 'Old Wiltshire Homes'.
Listing NGR: SU0357581147
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 316783
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Elyard, SJ, Some Old Wiltshire Homes, (1894)
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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