Sidbury Manor Including Conservatory and Screen Wall to West
SIDBURY MANOR INCLUDING CONSERVATORY AND SCREEN WALL TO WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287577
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Sidbury Manor Including Conservatory and Screen Wall to West
- Statutory Address:
- SIDBURY MANOR INCLUDING CONSERVATORY AND SCREEN WALL TO WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287577
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Sidbury Manor Including Conservatory and Screen Wall to West
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIDBURY MANOR INCLUDING CONSERVATORY AND SCREEN WALL TO WEST
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:
- SIDBURY MANOR INCLUDING CONSERVATORY AND SCREEN WALL TO WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sidmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 13304 92656
Details
SIDBURY 1. 1633 Sidbury Manor including conservatory end screen wall to west SY 19 SW 12/308 II 2. 1879 by David Brandon. Restrained successful free handling of Jacobean and French Chateau motifs. Large 2 storeys and attics red brick country house. Ham stone quoins, window dressings, and decorative carving of high quality. Plinth, band between storeys, modillion cornice and parapet, with panels of turned balusters raised at one point in strapwork lunette. Steep pitch gable end slate roofs, finely carved neo-Tudor and Jacobean chimneys clustered. Ball and mitre finials on gables and at parapet ends. East entrance front has slightly asymmetrical arrangement of rectangular bays and slender octagonal tower. Large mullioned and transomed windows, carved panelled aprons and strapwork decoration to parapets. Upper register of tower has elaborate stone panels, dog and griffin gargoyles and pointed leaded roof decorated with 3 finialed gablets. The whole crowned by ornate weathervane. Grand frontispiece entrance, stone faced with shaped gable surmounted by lion and finial. 1st floor window flanked by strapped composite pilasters, elaborate carved entablature and strapwork over with ball and spike finials. Large porch with paired pilasters, fluted bases, rosettes in necking. 4-centred arched side windows. Heavy carved entablature with strapwork parapet. Double panelled and glazed door under 4-centred moulded arch. South west garden front is in part symmetrical with E group of gabled bays but there is a further bay to west and a tower wing with single storey extension set back with large conservatory in right angle. Fenestration similar to entrance front but with canted bays. Cornice etc returned. Gables have stone coping and ball and mitre finials. End bay has oriel 1st floor west side, the ground floor opened in 2 bay arcade to south and west, diamond block piers and plain piers with heavy foliate capitals, 4-centred arches. Arcade is repeated on inside wall of conservatory which has stone faced front: large mullioned and transomed windows articulated by pilasters, strapwork parapet. Glazed roof supported by cast iron columns with good foliate capitals inside. The tower is square with steep pitch hipped French roof, ornamental guard rails around top and weathervane. West end of single storey extension has large canted bay, the strapwork parapet carried over from conservatory, A brick screen wall extends to west with coping. Tuscan columned doorway, dentil cornice to entablature, mitre finials on blocking course. Interior has full height staircase hall with arcade to ground floor and on 2 sides of lst floor. 2 flight oak staircase with finely carved strapwork balustrade. Coved compartmented ceiling. Library with finely carved oak book cases with niches surmounted by urns. Sidbury Manor is set in fine park to north west of village.
Listing NGR: SY1330492656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401966
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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