The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274401
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274401
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD
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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Water Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 10844 97180
Details
WATER NEWTON OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD TL 1097 (South Side) 12/169 No. 1 (The Manor House) (formerly listed as 25.9.51 Water Newton House) GV II House, formerly a farmhouse and inn. Early to mid C18 with C19 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble with freestone and ashlar dressings. Collyweston stone slated roofs. Two storeys and attics, T-plan with stair turret in angle and single storey gable end range to south. Parapet gables with chamfered copings and moulded corbells continued in moulded wooden eaves cornices with modillions. Three gable end stacks each with two ashlar shafts and ridge stack with three shafts. North elevation; ashlar band between floors, chamfered plinth; C19 gabled porched entrance with glazed, panelled door and rectangular fanlight, flanking bay windows; four first floor cross framed windows; three hipped dormer windows with casements; (some C17 mullioned windows in rear elevations possibly reused from Hall demolished c.1730, and wooden door jamb carved with jewel ornament also reused). Interior: South wing resited C16 or C17 panelling with arabesque frieze; north wall panelling C17, closed string staircase with turned balusters and square newels. The house was formerly an inn called 'The Farmhouse' in 1742.
V.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p230 R.C.H.M. Huntingdonshire, p228 Pevsner: Buildings of England, p364
Listing NGR: TL1084497180
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 415305
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 228
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 230
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 364
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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