MANOR HOUSE WITH ATTACHED COURTYARD WALL AT REAR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237522
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1969
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE WITH ATTACHED COURTYARD WALL AT REAR
Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE WITH ATTACHED COURTYARD WALL AT REAR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237522
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE WITH ATTACHED COURTYARD WALL AT REAR
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR HOUSE WITH ATTACHED COURTYARD WALL AT REAR

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:: MANOR HOUSE WITH ATTACHED COURTYARD WALL AT REAR

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whalton
National Grid Reference:: NZ 13242 81447

Details

WHALTON WHALTON VILLAGE NZ 1381 (North side) 12/163 Manor House with attached courtyard 28.4.69 wall at rear (formerly listed as Whalton Manor House) G.V. II - House formed from Old Whalton Manor, C17-C18, and 3 attached cottages remodelled and extended by Lorrimer in late C19, Whalton Mansion 1729, now a separate residence known as West Manor House (q.v.) and a linking range of 1908-9, with further internal remodelling, by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Mrs. Eustace Smith. Squared stone except for 1908-9 part, ashlar with some rock-faced stone to rear and original Manor, rubble with cut dressings; stone slate roofs. Plan: long range fronting the road with rear wing near the east end.

South elevation 2 storeys, in 4 sections. 5-bay left end part is now West Manor House (q.v.). Lutyens' link block 3 wide bays: plinth. Right bay has panelled double doors under elliptical arch, flanked by half-glazed double doors under raised lintels with stepped keystones; raised impost band. Three 18-pane sash windows above with similar lintels, shaped aprons, raised blocks between and sunk panels above. Bays to left each have tripartite window, with metal-framed casments, beneath heavy canted oriels with moulded bases, small-paned sash windows, moulded cornices and broader weather-boarded panels, above. Large panelled and ornamented ridge and right end stacks. Lower 6-bay part to right, former cottages, has 3 central French windows with fluted heads to doorframes, and 12-pane sash windows. 5-bay part, original Manor, to far right has central doorway in architrave with metope frieze and dentilled pedimented hood on consoles; 12-pane sashes. Coped gables with moulded kneelers; stepped-and- corniced ridge and right end stacks.

Rear elevation: entrance bay, with similar detail to front, flanked by quadrant- shaped stair projections, rock-faced except for ashlar above a chamfered set- back near eaves level. Semi-conical roofs; the whole reminiscent of an Edwardian castle gatehouse. The projections are linked by a wall with a heavy square coping and 2 gateways having piers with moulded caps, enclosing an oval courtyard with stone setts laid in concentric fashion. To left, rear wing of 10 irregular bays with 12-pane sash windows.

Interior: 3-bay aisled groin-vaulted carriage entrance. Stone-walled baroque entrance hall with Gibbs surrounds to doorways and large moulded fireplace, from which a stone winder stair, with ribbed barrel vault, leads to a landing and an added long gallery overlooking courtyard. On first floor anteroom has deeply-coved matt black ceiling and windmap; circular bedroom (former dining room) has high domed ceiling and is said to be a model for the Viceroy's throne room at New Delhi. High-quality baroque-style woodwork throughout the Lutyens section, and 2 bathrooms with impressive contemporary fittings. Further east the Oak Room (former library) has Lorrimer frieze, and panelling said to be from Benton Church.

Listing NGR: NZ1324281447

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Legacy System number:: 428835
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.