Manor House

MANOR HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1215988
Date first listed:
30-Jul-1959
Statutory Address:
MANOR HOUSE
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2001-09-20
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1215988
Date first listed:
30-Jul-1959
Statutory Address 1:
MANOR HOUSE

Location

Statutory Address:
MANOR HOUSE

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

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:
Wickhamford
National Grid Reference:
SP 06810 42217

Details

SP 04 SE WICKHAMFORD CP - 2/171 Manor House 30.7.59. GV II House. Probably C16 with early C20 alterations and extensions. Timber- framing and limestone rubble with tile roofs. Irregular plan. Two storeys. East front has two projecting gabled cross-wings and a recessed centre. The windows are timber casements with leaded glazing. The left-hand wing is of one bay and is close-studded with middle rails to each floor. The gable is similarly studded and has a tie-beam and collar. The recessed centre is close-studded and has a wide window on both floors. To each side on the first floor are small windows. At the right is a doorway. The right- hand cross-wing is of stone except for the front of the upper storey, where close-studded framing is exposed. The gable has a king-strut and fish-bone bracing. At the right is a gabled C20 extension. Chimneys to left and right and at rear. Interior: not accessible at time of survey. A room on the south side of the house is said to contain a wide fireplace with flat four-centred stone fireplace and a C17 panelled wood chimneypiece with inlaid patterns in the panels. The house was the boyhood home of James Lees-Milne and is mentioned in his autobiography. (VCH, p 428).

Listing NGR: SP0680542217

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401287
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Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1901), 428

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