Westoning Manor
WESTONING MANOR, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224409
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Westoning Manor
- Statutory Address:
- WESTONING MANOR, CHURCH ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224409
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Westoning Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTONING MANOR, CHURCH ROAD
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:
- WESTONING MANOR, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westoning
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02696 32687
Details
WESTONING
TL 0232 CHURCH ROAD
21/122 Westoning Manor
- II
House, now residential school. 1842-3 for the Rev John William Coventry Campion. Jacobethan style. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Clay tile roofs. Complex asymmetrical plan, main part 2 storeys and attics, other parts 2-storeyed or one storey and attics. E elevation: balanced asymmetry. 2 slightly projecting shaped gables. LH one has paired window to ground floor, 2 windows to first floor and one window to attic. RH gable is similar, but with only one window each to ground and first floors. Central recessed block has 2 windows to first floor. All are of 2 lights, attic ones mullioned, others will mullions and transoms. Ground floor of central recess forms distyle portico in antis. Portico surmounted by pierced stone balustrading, which is echoed in parapet balustrade. Gables have small blind oculi above windows, and decorative finials. To centre of recessed bay parapet is carved stout finials. Recessed bay parapet has carved stone panel with crest. Various ridge stacks, all with moulded octagonal shafts. S elevation: features include 2 2-storeyed canted bays surmounted by ornate stone cresting. N elevation: main block has projecting 2 storey and attics porch gable, similar to those of E elevation but probably a later addition, with elliptical archway. To RH is one storey and attics service wing. Most windows have honeycomb or diamond leaded lights. Interior: much C17 carved woodwork combined with C19 work in ground and first floor doors, doorcases, and chimney-pieces, as well as in imperial staircase. C17 woodwork reputed to come from old house at Wrest Park and old Houses of Parliament. (VCH (Beds.) iii, 451-3)
Listing NGR: TL0269632687
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420472
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Bedford, (1912), 451-3
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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