The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330175
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330175
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tarporley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 55429 62487
Details
SJ 56 SE TARPORLEY C.P. HIGH STREET
1/54 The Manor House
GV II
House. Dated 1585 on gable bressumer. Timber framed and rendered with slate roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: near symmetrical front with three gables and projecting lateral gabled wings, that at left with moulded brackets to jettied first floor and gable. This gable has decorative timber framing with ogees, quarter-circles and fleurs de lys, with a central coat of arms. The inscription to the moulded bressumer reads "Ralph Done Esquyer, the Lorde of this place, was an eade to this buldying in ever case. John Wytter 1586. The beam below the first floor (C19 casement window reads "Feneys quoth Jhon Newsome hathe kept hys promes just, In buldying of thys house in August, anno 1585." Similar jettied first floor and gable to right hand side all rendered. C19 two, three and four-light windows to west with plain bargeboards and posts to gables. Rear: extensive C19 additions including cheeseroom at left and lean-to to centre. Interior: Small framing to ground and first floor walls with some wattle and daub infill. C19 spinal corridor. Chamfered and end-stopped ceiling beams to ground floor rooms and Queen post trusses to first floor. The house was built for Ralph Done of Flaxyards, Tarporley. Source: G Ormerod - History of the County Palatine and City of Chester 1882.
Listing NGR: SJ5542962487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57242
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ormerod, G, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Volume 1, (1882)
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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