West Manor House
WEST MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264043
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- WEST MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264043
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST 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:
- WEST MANOR HOUSE
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 13200 81447
Details
WHALTON WHALTON VILLAGE NZ 1381 (North side) 12/164 West Manor House GV II* House, dated 1729 with initials I:R on lintel, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. Alterations 1908-9 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Mrs. Eustace Smith, when the house was incorporated in the Manor House (q.v.); it is now a separate tenancy. Squared stone (except for rubble in ground floor left return), cut dressings; stone slate roof.
2 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical, chamfered plinth. Central 6-panel door with overlight in wave-moulded raised stone surround with shaped lintel top; 12-pane sash windows with raised lintels and stepped keystones. Coped left gable on moulded kneelers; stepped-and-corniced end stacks. Left return shows two 4-pane attic casements. Rear elevation shows twin projecting wings, that to right extended by Lutyens.
Interior: some contemporary fireplaces with later ironwork. Panelled shutters, transverse ceiling beam in sitting room with swelled chamfer stops of C17 type. Dog-leg open-string stair up to attic; urn-on-vase balusters, moulded, ramped and wreathed handrail, moulded newel post at base, shaped tread ends. Roof structure of collar-beam trusses with overlapped apices carrying ridge, the joints nailed rather than pegged.
Prior to the 1908-9 alterations known as the Mansion House; the present dwelling includes one bay of Lutyens' link block; for description see Manor House (q.v.).
Listing NGR: NZ1320081447
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428836
- 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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