Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276954
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276954
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, THE GREEN
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:
- MANOR HOUSE, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 74391 33655
Details
SP 7433 THORNBOROUGH THE GREEN
8/158 Manor House (formerly listed as Thornborough Manor) 25/9/51
GV II
Manor house. C17, altered and extended early C18 for Benjamin Woodnorth, High Sheriff of Buckingham, restored early C20. Coursed rubble stone, dressed stone window heads, off-set brick eaves, old tile roofs. U-plan N. wing, part C17, with early C18 range to south. Two storeys and attic. N.W. gable: has stone stack with three square brick shafts, and buttress to ground floor. E. front: wing to south has three bays with leaded mullion and transom windows to left-hand bays and upper right. Right-hand bay has six panelled door in wooden doorcase of Doric columns and plain entablature with 2-light leaded casement above. Three hipped dormers with leaded casements, 3-light to outer bays, paired to centre. Lean-to at left end. Slightly projecting lower range to right, linked by half-hipped roof, has first floor band course and two bays of leaded casements, mostly 3-light with 4-light to upper left. W. front of early C18 block is similar. Doric doorcase has rusticated blocks, pilasters, entablature with triglyph frieze and segmental pediment. Interior: staircase of c.1740 with turned balusters, fluted Tuscan newel columns and open string with scroll brackets. Stair-well has C18 bolection panelling. Re-sited panelling in N.W. ground floor room.
RCHM II p 296 MON 2
Listing NGR: SP7439133655
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408076
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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