Westoning Manor

WESTONING MANOR, CHURCH ROAD

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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:
WESTONING MANOR, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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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:
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

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Sources

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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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