The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, 81, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1318037
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 81, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1318037
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 81, HIGH 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, 81, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbourn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38188 44645
Details
MELBOURN HIGH STREET TL 3844 (South east side) 24/178 No. 81 (The Manor 22.11.67 House) (formerly listed as part of No. iii) GV II*
House. c.1710-20, with mid C18 parlour wing at the rear. Red and burnt brick on plinth, except for the rear wall which is timber framed. Parapetted roof, tiled with end stacks and moulded brick eaves cornice. Original early C18 house of single range plan with service and offices to the north end and principal rooms flanking a narrower hall and stairbay. Cellar, two principal storeys and attic. Three hipped dormers. Symmetrical five window range framed by pilasters with red brick quoins and moulded brick capitals and bases. Original ovolo moulded glazing bars to twelve pane hung sashes with arched top panes in open boxing and segmental arches. Four steps up to central doorway with door of eight raised and fielded panels and later flat hood on scroll brackets. Lead rainwater downpipe, C18-C19, to front wall and another probably mid C18 with initials W.H. to right hand gable end. Parlour wing added mid C18. Red brick, tiled. Two storeys and attic. Sham framing to part of rear wall. Inside: Paved hall with fine open-string staircase of four flights and two landings. Column on-vase balusters with swept and moulded rail, square newels, fluted, with curtail. The mid C18 parlour at the rear is lined with raised and fielded panelling in two heights and the room adjoining at the front has similar panelling. The overmantel has a modillion cornice, but the fireplace is c.1840 and of white marble. It has been suggested that the house was built for Richard Hitch on his marriage to Mary Hawkes in 1704 or that it was the bailiffs house built by the Hitch family following their purchase of the Argentines and Trayles Manors.
Nina Campkin : Melbourn Village History (mss. in Cambridgeshire Collection) V.C.H. Cambs. Vol. VIII R.C.H.M.: Record Card (1949)
Listing NGR: TL3818844645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52229
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982)
Campkin, N, Cambridgeshire Collection in Melbourn Village History, ()
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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