Fyfield Manor
FYFIELD MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1286502
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Fyfield Manor
- Statutory Address:
- FYFIELD MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1286502
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Fyfield Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- FYFIELD MANOR
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:
- FYFIELD MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton Lilbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 17594 60540
Details
MILTON LILBOURNE FYFIELD SU 16 SE 12/28 Fyfield Manor 4.6.52
GV I
Large house. C15, C16, late C17, early-mid C18, and 1925. Brick on high stone plinth, slate roof. Two storeys with cellars. Main front to south comprising 7 bays symmetrical about central entrance, and forward wings of 1 bay to left, and 2 bays to right. Left wing continued as wing to rear, C16. Right wing contains C16 work remodelled and extended to rear in C18. The 2 rear wings linked by a 1925 flat roofed structure. C15 structure of stone, partly included in stair tower at rear with 4-centred 2-light windows. Central entrance to main front with early C18 doorcase with pulvinated frieze and pediment on consoles. Twelve-paned sashes with gauged lintels, plat band and moulded brick cornice. This is interrupted by 3 asymmetrical gables of mid C17 with carved barge boards. Fenestration to left wing similar but stone lintel. Large iron letter M. Right wing has two C17 brick external'stacks.' This front has C18 wood dentilled cornice and end gable stack. West rear wing extended in C19 as 2 parellel ridged single storey outbuildings, now childrens room. Diagonal brick shafts to all main stacks. Interior: Entrance hall, late C16-early Cl7, panelled, with stone square flags. Main reception room to right was probably hall of the Cl6 house. Cornice and ovolo moulded ceiling beams, and C16- C17 panelling. Sitting room to right wing fully panelled with bolection mouldings and cornice, and a marble fireplace, all C17. Similar fireplace and panelling to room to rear. A homely manor house in the picturesque tradition, the retirement home of Lord Avon, former prime minister, from c1958 to 1965. (N. Pevsner, Buildings of England: Wiltshire; C. Hussey, Country Life, Vol LXVIII (1930), 260.
Listing NGR: SU1759460540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311663
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1963)
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 68, (1930), 260
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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