The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, 18, 20, 22, 24, SMITHS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317862
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 18, 20, 22, 24, SMITHS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317862
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 18, 20, 22, 24, SMITHS STREET
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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 18, 20, 22, 24, SMITHS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 31574 63678
Details
TL 3063-3163 ELSWORTH SMITHS STREET
12/57 The Manor House 31.8.62 (Nos. 18,20,22,24)
II
Manor House, built between 1656-1660 for Samuel Disbrowe (d.1690). Early C19 alterations. Soft red brick and C19 gault brick painted, C19 plastered timber frame. Plain tile roofs. Two storeys and attics. Symmetrical plan of two projecting wings hipped to main elevation and flanking central range raised c.1800, main entrance also moved to West wing. Main facade. Band between floors and tarred brick plinth. Entrance with six-panelled door in original cross passage position; wooden verandah with hipped plain tile roof, C19 nine-paned hung sash window to left hand and two fifteen-paned first floor hung sash windows. Wings each with two ground floor and first floor twelve-paned nearly flush framed hung sash windows in gauged brick arches. Two hipped dormer windows. Interior has some late C17 and C18 panelling, doors and sash windows and early C19 alterations include pilastered decoration to West entrance hall. The house has recently been converted to three dwellings. Samuel Disbrowe was keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland during the Civil War. R.C.H.M. West Cambs mon.3, p.86 Pevsner. Buildings of England p.337 Davis, E.M. Elsworth Manor 1981 C.C. Evans, E. Church and Village of Elsworth 1981
Listing NGR: TL3157463678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50966
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Evans, E, The Church and Village of Elsworth, (1981)
Davis, E M, Elsworth Manor, (1981)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 337
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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