THE OLD MANOR HOUSE

THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET, THORPE BY WATER, OAKHAM, LE15 9JQ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1237181
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1955
List Entry Name:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET, THORPE BY WATER, OAKHAM, LE15 9JQ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1237181
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1955
List Entry Name:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET, THORPE BY WATER, OAKHAM, LE15 9JQ

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET, THORPE BY WATER, OAKHAM, LE15 9JQ

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 89326 96491

Details

SP 89 NE 4/152

THORPE BY WATER, MAIN STREET, The Old Manor House

(Formerly listed as Tudor House)

10.11.55

GV II*

House. Dated 1597 on small stone tablet not necessarily original to house. Of at least 2 c.1600-early C17 builds. Coursed limestone rubble, Collyweston slate roof, coped gables, ashlar chimneys with pairs of square shafts to left and between right bays. L-plan, with altered range of former outbuildings forming U-plan. 2 storeys and attic, 3 bay front. Windows have ovolo-moulded limestone mullions and varying cornices. All front windows are of 4 lights, those to left bay each with one light blocked and quadrant cornice above. Windows in right bays have casement cornices, and lower windows have lowered sills. To right of left bay is a C20 half-glazed door recessed behind a C17 limestone door surround with stops to mouldings, 4-centred arch and casement cornice. Right gable end has 3-light window with cyma recta cornice to ground floor, C20 3-light concrete window in matching style to first floor, and 2-light attic window. Similar windows to rear wing, mostly with casement cornices, the attic window in gabled dormer. To rear of left bay is a range of former outbuildings and bakery, now of only one storey with flat C20 roof, but formerly higher. W side of this wing incorporates older fragments, with C20 window set between moulded stone jambs and with moulded wooden fireplace lintel above. There is also a moulded stone door lintel. Interior: left bay has large open fireplace with arched window and wooden lintel shaped into depressed arch; moulded stone fireplace with 4-centred arch moved from room above to ground floor of right bay. Other first floor rooms have similar stone fireplaces, that in centre bay with stone box cornice. Another similar fireplace in attic of rear wing. Rear wing also has original winder stair with knob handles to newel post, and re-set stone tablets with inscriptions commemorating John Osborne, a nonconformist who died 1668. Tablets originally set into wall of orchard. Stop-chamfered spine beams. Left bay has been partitioned so as to provide a cross-passage.

Listing NGR: SP8935696463

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Legacy System number:: 428272
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.