MANOR HOUSE

MANOR HOUSE, THE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1251184
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1962
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1251184
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1962
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR HOUSE, THE STREET

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, THE STREET

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Broughton Gifford
National Grid Reference:: ST 87959 63497

Details

BROUGHTON GIFFORD THE STREET ST 86 SE (east side) 4/82 Manor House (formerly listed as "The Old Manor") 13.11.62 GV II *

Detached house. Early C17. Random rubble stone, stone slate roof, ashlar stacks with moulded cappings, saddleback coped verges. L- plan. Two-storey, 3-window main range. Gabled stone porch with round-arched doorway with keystone imposts and dripstone, ledged inner door with Tudor-arched stone surround, 3-light ovolo- mullioned casement either side, continuous string course over lintels. First floor has 3-light mullioned casement either side of 2-light over porch, lintel string course. Two full gabled dormers with 3-light mullioned casements with hoodmoulds, finials to coped verges, wing projecting to left has two 3-light ovolo-mullioned casements to ground floor, one to first and to full gabled dormer, gabled front of wing has 3-light mullioned casement to ground, first and attic floors. Right return of main range has large. external stack. Left return has 3-light mullioned casement to ground floor, 2-light mullioned casement to attic, two large gabled stacks. Rear has 2-light and 5-light mullioned casement and two gabled attics as front, single-storey wing to right added 1909. Interior has moulded beams and exposed joists to ground floor, Tudor-arched stone fireplaces, and bolection-moulded first floor fireplace. Fine stone fireplace in drawing room, reset from first floor 1909, segmental pediment with carved fish on volutes with mask corbels, frieze with cartouches and heraldic arms supported on pilasters with guilloche ornament, ovolo-moulded doorway from hall to drawing room. Probably built for Sir John Horton, whose family owned the house during C17. A good example of the C17 stone manor house in North Wiltshire. House restored c.1909 by Mr. Schmidt. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 7, 1953; Wiltshire Buildings Record, Devizes).

Listing NGR: ST8795963497

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Legacy System number:: 433824
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1953)

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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.