Wakerley Manor

WAKERLEY MANOR, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1276300
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Wakerley Manor
Statutory Address:
WAKERLEY MANOR, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1276300
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Wakerley Manor
Statutory Address 1:
WAKERLEY MANOR, MAIN STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WAKERLEY MANOR, MAIN STREET

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

District:
North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wakerley
National Grid Reference:
SP 95225 99490

Details

WAKERLEY MAIN STREET SP9599 (South side) 10/178 Wakerley Manor GV II House. Datestone "John Archer 1769", extended and altered early and mid C19. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and Collyweston slate roof Originally 3-unit plan now irregular L-shape. 2 storeys with attic. Main front is a 3-window range with Gothick style gabled porch breaking forward to centre. Central outer archway with segmental arch-head and chamfered surrounds. Similar inner doorway, with part-glazed door, and arch-head side lights. Flanking French doors with chamfered stone surrounds and Gothick glazing bars. Unhorned sash windows, with glazing bars, to first floor, have chamfered stone surrounds with keyblocks. Ashlar gable parapets, with finial, to porch, and ashlar stacks at ends. Datestone on quoin to north-west corner. Elevation to left of main front has a 2-window range of C19 sash windows with ashlar surrounds, to right gable end. Early C19 three-window range, to centre and left, has mid C19 tripartite sash windows under gauged stone heads. Gable elevation to right of main front is similar to left gable. Mid C19 gable is attached to right and mid C19 single-storey extension attached to far right. Rear elevation has one casement window, in gable end, under wood lintel. Interior: entrance hall has early Cl9 staircase with stick balustrade, rising around an open well. Some 6-panel doors. Dining roam to left of entrance has Gothick style marble fireplace, reset from drawing room, to right. Ground and first floor rooms to left and right of entrance hall have chamfered spine beans. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p154)

Listing NGR: SP9522599490

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
409668
Legacy System:
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Sources

Other
Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire, (1984)

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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