LITTLE DURNFORD MANOR

LITTLE DURNFORD MANOR, LITTLE DURNFORD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1284299
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: LITTLE DURNFORD MANOR
Statutory Address:: LITTLE DURNFORD MANOR, LITTLE DURNFORD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1284299
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: LITTLE DURNFORD MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: LITTLE DURNFORD MANOR, LITTLE DURNFORD

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:: LITTLE DURNFORD MANOR, LITTLE DURNFORD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Durnford
National Grid Reference:: SU 12475 34246

Details

DURNFORD LITTLE DURNFORD SU 13 SW (west side)

10/124 Little Durnford Manor 10.1.53 I Manor house. Late C17, remodelled c1720-40 for Edward Younge, friend of Lord Pembroke, and late C18. Limestone and flint chequerwork with ashlar surrounds to windows, buff brickwork plinth and plat band and surrounds to side windows. Slate roof. Two tall storeys, 5 bays. Through hall double pile plan with service extension on east of rear corner. Central pair of glazed doors with fanlight within small Tuscan portico. Twelve-paned sashes with raised architraves and keystones, but narrow lights either side of door. Upper floor has similar 12-paned sashes but surround has cambered head and keystone, and early C19 iron balconies. Moulded cornice and panelled parapet, ball finials at ends. Return elevation on west is of 6 bays. Higher plat band and ground floor windows with brick architraves, pulvinated frieze and alternating heavy triangular and segmental pediments in brick in Palladian manner. Upper floor windows also have frieze and flat stone cornice. Projecting semi-circular stair at rear. Interior: First bay of hallway has groined plaster ceiling, and 6- panelled doors to drawing room on left, dado, cornice and chimneypiece. To right, the library, with a simple cornice and garlanded fire surround with marble slips. Dining room to rear, on west front, has elaborate chimneypiece with mirror and triangular pediment. Doors also with pulvinated frieze and pediments. Dentilled plaster cornice with elaborate frieze, and baroque plasterwork to walls, all of c1745-49, the excellent coffered ceiling now gone. Good stair at end of hall with an open-well, and turned balusters. Service wing heightened early C20 to 2 storeys, in brick. Cross windows. (Devenish, Dorothy. 'A Wiltshire Home' 1948; Country Life, 3rd July 1975) -

Listing NGR: SU1247534246

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 321435
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Devenish, D, A Wiltshire Home, (1948)
'Country Life' in 3 July, (1975)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.