Manor House
MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1226244
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1226244
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- 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:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newbottle
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 51761 39514
Details
SP53NW NEWBOTTLE GREAT PURSTON
5/156 Manor House 04/02/69
- II*
Manor House. C16 and late C17 with C20 extensions. Limestone ashlar with stone slate roof. L-plan. Symmetrical south front of c.1680 is of 2 storeys with a 3-bay centre and 2-bay projections to left and right. Central doorway with open segmental pediment and C20 glazed door. All windows are of 2 lights with stone mullions and transoms. Attic dormers have wooden casements and hipped roofs. East part incorporates a late C16 wing which projects north and has stone mullioned windows of 3- and 4-lights with square hoods. It is entered through a porch dated 1931, probably the time when the north side of the house was re-fenestrated. Interior: Entrance hall is the former kitchen and has an open fireplace with a segmental stone arch and oven with an iron door leading from a doorway south of this hall is a late C16 well staircase with turned balusters and newel posts with elongated acorn finials. In the south section of the house is a large oblong hall with a stone fireplace opposite the entrance. This is re-used late C16 work and has a 4-centred arch framed by fluted Corinthian columns and a frieze of stylised leaves. Above it are the arms of the Cresswell family (Lords of the Manor in the C17), carved in stone and not in situ. At the east end of this hall are late C17 5-panel double doors leading to a room with a fireplace of the same date with a wood bolection surround and bolection panelled overmantel. To the west of the hall is a room with re-used late C16 panelling and a stone fireplace of the same date with a 4-centred arch. A bedroom on the first floor has a late C17 fireplace with bolection panelled overmantel framing a painting on canvas of a landscape with the goddess Diana. To the west is a C20 extension of limestone rubble with a stone slate roof of two storeys with wooden casement windows. The garden south of the house forms a small forecourt enclosed by low stone walls with four gateways, each with plain stone piers and ball finials. (Great Purston Manor, (Anon); Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, January 1926, New Series No.1, Vol.6, p.1).
Listing NGR: SP5176139514
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423262
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Northamptonshire Notes and Queries in Great Purston Manor, Vol. 6, (1926), 1
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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