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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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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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.