Lydham Manor
LYDHAM MANOR, A488
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308108
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lydham Manor
- Statutory Address:
- LYDHAM MANOR, A488
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308108
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lydham Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYDHAM MANOR, A488
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:
- LYDHAM MANOR, A488
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lydham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO3305589953
Details
SO 38 NW
5/143
LYDHAM C.P.
A488 (west side)
Lydham Manor
GV
II
Stable block, now house. Circa 1814-16, probably by John Hiram Haycock
of Shrewsbury for the Rev. Herbert Oakley. Coursed limestone rubble with
ashlar dressings, partially rendered to rear, and hipped slate roof. U-plan
with wall enclosing courtyard to rear. 2 storeys. Deep eaves and 5 stacks.
9 bays on first floor; slightly projecting end bays with triangular pedimented
gables, slightly projecting centre bay with cornice, solid attic with clock
and coping, and wooden cupola with louvred round-arched openings, tented
lead cap, and weathervane. First floor early C19 wooden mullioned and transomed
windows, ground floor glazing bar sashes taken from former Lydham Manor,
now demolished. Large central blocked round-arched carriageway with impost
bands, central door from former house with 6 raised and fielded panels;
sandstone ashlar porch from former house with 2 Corinthian columns, frieze and
cornice, and radial fanlight above. Lydham Manor was formerly known as
Oakeley Park or House; the wings and pavilions of the old house were demolished
in the 1930's and the rest of the house in the 1960's, when the name was trans-
ferred to the stable block. Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British
Architects 1600-1840, John Murray, 1978, P.408; Peter Reid, Burke's and
Savills Guide to Country Houses, Hereford, Salop, Warwicks Worcs 19 0, P.100;
Salop Records Office, 1079/13.
Listing NGR: SO3305589953
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257057
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 408
Reid, P, Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, Vol. 2, (1980), 100
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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