OLD MANOR HOUSE

OLD MANOR HOUSE, WEST LITTLETON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1288609
Date first listed:: 15-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: OLD MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: OLD MANOR HOUSE, WEST LITTLETON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1288609
Date first listed:: 15-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: OLD MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD MANOR HOUSE, WEST LITTLETON ROAD

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:: OLD MANOR HOUSE, WEST LITTLETON ROAD

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tormarton
National Grid Reference:: ST 76207 75467

Details

ST 77 NE TORMARTON C.P. WEST LITTLETON ROAD, West Littleton (east side) 6/294 Old Manor House G.V. II*

House. Said to have been built c. 1500 by John Baldwin, C17 and later alterations and additions. Limestone rubble with stone dressings, stone tiled roof with raised coped verges and gable stacks with diagonal chimneys, addition to right with slate roof. U-plan formed by 2 rear wings, symmetrical front. 2½ storeys and 3 windows, ground floor has two 4-light casements with ovolo mullions, king mullion and hood mould, first floor has 2 similar 3-light casements, central 2-storey gabled porch has 4-centred arched chamfered opening, small lancet to each side, benches to sides, heavy ovolo-moulded frame with run-out stops to inner door, plank and batten, studded, strap hinges with fleur-de-lys heads and iron ring handle, porch has first floor similar 3-light casement; 3 small gables, each with similar 2-light casement; all C20 glazing, some metal-framed lights. Attached to right, a single storey wing has C20 window to left and garage door to right, ridge stacks. Left return has blocked 3-light casement at ground floor, similar single light at attic to right of stack; lower wing to left has similar 2-light casement at ground and first floor. Right return has external stack, similar single light at ground floor right; rear of single storey addition has 2 doors and one window. Rear has 2 wings, to left with ground floor 3-light casement, buttress blocking central light, 6-pane sash with dripstone at first floor and single light at attic. Central 2 bays between wings have C20 door and greenhouse filling central area, at first floor a single light with dripstone, 2-light casement with chamfered mullion and dripstone (formerly 3-light, replaced) small gable above as on front with 2-light casement with chamfered mullion and dripstone; wing to right of 2 storeys. Interior: through passage, wings to rear probably added later, former external wall about 2 feet thick; wide newel stair rising to attic level; front left room has 4-centred arched stone fireplace, with moulded jambs, head and mantel, formerly at first floor, heavy beam with run-out stops; front right room has high cambered lintel to fireplace with possible smoking chamber to left. First floor rear wing to right has stone bolection-moulded fireplace; rear and centre attics have 4-centred arched chamfered door frames, 5-bay roof to front with principal rafters, collars, 2 rows of purlins and ridge purlin.

Listing NGR: ST7620775467

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Legacy System number:: 399161
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.