Manor House

MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1214444
Date first listed:
25-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
Manor House
Statutory Address:
MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1214444
Date first listed:
25-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
Manor House
Statutory Address 1:
MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Marsh Gibbon
National Grid Reference:
SP 64738 23170

Details

SP 6423 MARSH GIBBON CHURCH STREET (north-west side)

8/35 Manor House

25.9.51

GV II*

House. Mid C16 hall, side wings extended and altered C17 and C18. Coursed rubble stone with some stone dressings. Old tile roofs with C17 bargeboards and finials to gables, those to right renewed. Chimney stacks of thin brick with square shafts set diagonally, 4 to main stack between right-hand bays, 2 to left side. Main stack has moulded brick panel at base. Leaded windows. 2 storeys, attics and cellar. E. front has 4 bays, each gabled to front. 2 centre bays of hall are recessed with 2-storey projecting porch to left and canted bay window to right, both flush with outer bays and rendered gables above. Porch and bay window have dressed quoins. Porch has moulded 4-centred arch with flat hoodmould, and jettied timber frame with stone infill to first floor. c16 6-panelled studded door with original hinges and catches. 2- storey bay window has moulded string courses and 6-light stone mullion and transom windows. 3-light wooden mullion window to attic. Small cellar window between bays. Outer bays wider with wooden mullion and transom windows, 3-light in left-hand bay, 6-light in right-hand bay, that to first floor renewed. 3-light wooden mullion windows to attics. Right-hand bay has 2 similar staircase windows to left. S. front of left-hand wing remodelled C18: 5 bays of barred sash windows with timber lintels, French doors to left and external stack between right-hand bays. Interior: hall has large stone C16 fireplace with moulded 4-centred arch. Similar smaller fireplace in upper room of right wing. C16 panelling, altered, in same room. Moulded doorcases. C16 staircase with turned balusters, square newel posts and acorn finials in projection to rear of hall. Similar smaller staircase with bell finials in right-hand wing. C18 panelling and stone moulded fireplace in left-hand wing.

RCHM II pp 189-191 Mon. 3.

Listing NGR: SP6473823170

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
399250
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)

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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