Manor House
MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1237065
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1237065
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1955
- 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:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorpe By Water
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 89303 96457
Details
THORPE BY WATER SP 89 NE 4/149 10.11.55 Manor House. GV II*
House. Left wing is dated EHM 1691 on plaque in gable end; wing projecting to right is late C16-early C17 but altered and truncated. Left wing has limestone ashlar front and gable end, and rubble stone rear wall; right wing is rendered. Collyweston slate roofs with coped gables. Ashlar chimneys, cruciform to centre of left wing, the right wing with pair of square shafts linked by entablature cap. Now L-plan, the left wing formerly of lobby entry type, the right wing being the surviving part of a former T-plan building with front wing demolished. 2 storeys and attic. Left wing has 2 main bays and central chimney bay, with chamfered plinth and eaves, raised first floor band course and rusticated quoins to left. Ovolo-moulded limestone mullion windows with raised cavetto moulded surrounds and leaded glazing, the main bays with 3-light windows, the centre with 2-light window over C20 single light. Single light replaces former lobby entry. Left gable end has 3-light windows to main floors and 2-light window to attic. C20 gabled projection and conservatory to rear. Right wing is gabled and projecting, of one bay, with 4-light ovolo-moulded stone windows to left return and front gable. These windows have king mullions, casement cornices and leaded glazing, the ground floor windows being extended in height. Set diagonally across angle between wings is C20 door in stone doorcase re-sited from centre of left wing. Doorcase has moulded architrave frame, pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice. Interior: right wing has moulded and stopped stone fireplace with 4-centred arch, and chamfered first floor cross beams with fine bar stops; fine late C17 staircase in bay linking the 2 wings, with sturdy twisted balusters, flattish handrail and panelled newels; winder stair to attic in far left corner of left wing; left wing also has wooden lintels to fireplaces, 2-panel doors to former lobby and heavily moulded box cornice, possibly the top of a former dresser, in left bay.
Listing NGR: SP8930396457
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428270
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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