Chelmscote Manor
CHELMSCOTE MANOR, B448
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320149
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Chelmscote Manor
- Statutory Address:
- CHELMSCOTE MANOR, B448
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320149
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chelmscote Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHELMSCOTE MANOR, B448
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:
- CHELMSCOTE MANOR, B448
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Soulbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 89720 27326
Details
SP 82 NE SOULBURY B448 (CHELMSCOTE)
3/40 Chelmscote Manor (formerly listed as Chelmscott Manor House)
26.9.51 II
House, part originally chapel. Mid C14 converted to house C16- Cl7, restored and extended C20. Original range to south is of greensand rubble with some clunch dressings and has diagonal corner buttresses, that to N.E. corner missing. Hipped old tile roof, now truncated below the ridge line which survives only in a small section around the chimney. Chimney is between right-hand bays and is of brick, rebuilt. 2 storeys, S. front of 3 bays. C20 stone mullion windows, 3-light to right bay and ground floor of centre bay, 2-light to first floor of centre and to ground flooor of left bay. Ground floor windows have flat hoodmoulds. Traces of gables, outlined in limestone, between bays, that to left over blocked doorway, that to right over C14 arch now sheltered by C20 gabled stone porch with arched double doors. Left side has similar windows, entrance and basement windows. Right side has C20 3-light window to first floor and C20 shallow projection with parapet and 5-light window to ground floor. Parallel range to north in matching style is dated 1956 over door in E. end. Later C20 brick range with leaded casements is attached to N.W. corner. Internal C14 remains of chapel include: entrance arch on N. side; squints in N. and S. walls, each with moulded stone surround and cusped arch; cusped piscina in S. wall near E. end; doorway and squint in N. wall at first floor level. Double-sided fireplace inserted late C16-C17, the W. side with curved brace to moulded spine beam. Similar moulded spine beams to other ground floor rooms all ornamented with small blank heraldic shields.
RCHM II p. 269 Mon. 4.
Listing NGR: SP8972027326
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350778
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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