LANDFORD MANOR

LANDFORD MANOR, STOCK LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1300292
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: LANDFORD MANOR
Statutory Address:: LANDFORD MANOR, STOCK LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1300292
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: LANDFORD MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: LANDFORD MANOR, STOCK LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LANDFORD MANOR, STOCK LANE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Landford
National Grid Reference:: SU 26212 20161

Details

LANDFORD STOCK LANE SU 22 SE (east side) 8/165 Landford Manor 23/3/60

GV II*

Large detached house, now offices. c1600, south wing c1680, additions of 1885 and 1929. English bond brick with limestone quoins and dressings, tiled roofs, brick stacks. L-plan. 3- storey, 5-window front with fenestration of c1717. Flint and limestone chequered plinth, central door with 8 fielded panels in moulded architrave with grotesque head keystone and cornice on consoles, to either side of central bay on all floors are 12-pane sashes with segmental heads and keystones. String courses at floor levels, centre bays of first and second floor have square-headed sashes with grotesque head keystones, thick glazing bars retained in second floor sashes only. Panelled brick blocking course has central panel with arms of John Eyre, c1717. To right is added bay of c1885, with lateral stack with offsets, right return has 2- storey canted bay with mullion and transomed windows, 2-light ovolo-mullioned window to attic. Roof has saddleback coped verges, groups of diagonally-set stacks with stepped capping. Rear has two projecting gables to original house, 2, 3 and 4-light mullioned and transomed windows, coped gables with pinnacles, left gable has sundial, between these bays is C19 mullioned and transomed window, first floor has cross window, attic has hipped dormer. To right is large porch of c1914, with verandah on wooden posts, Tudor-arched doorways and windows in same style. Rear wing to right of c1680 has 4 bays with cross windows to ground and first floors, coved plaster cornice, three hipped dormers to roof with 2- light leaded casements. South addition to wing of c1929, mullioned and transomed windows in 2-storey bay, 3-light ovolo-mullioned windows to attic gables. Attached to east of wing are services of c1929, single-storey with attic, Tudor-arched doorways and cross windows. Left return from front has external stack, blocked windows to right, 12-pane sash to left, straight joint between front and early C18 rear wing, wing has cross windows, coved cornice and hipped dormers to roof, C19 and C20 addition to left in similar style. Interior: Entrance hall has early C18 panelling and composite pilasters, stairs in rear stair turret have three turned balusters per tread, carved spandrels. Doors with 6 fielded panels. Reset oak overmantel with Tuscan columns of c1600 to fireplace on ground floor. Late C17 panelling to first floor of main range and to south wing which also has late C17 stairs with turned balusters. History: Original build by Stanter family; Davenants added south wing and heightened front c1680. Eyres altered front 1717. Property of Nelsons of Trafalgar in C19. C20 additions for Sir Frederick Preston. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury.)

Listing NGR: SU2621220161

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Legacy System number:: 319724
Legacy System:: LBS

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