Lord's Manor
LORD'S MANOR, 2, FROG END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330825
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lord's Manor
- Statutory Address:
- LORD'S MANOR, 2, FROG END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330825
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lord's Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- LORD'S MANOR, 2, FROG END
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:
- LORD'S MANOR, 2, FROG END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shepreth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 39340 47406
Details
On the entry for: TL 3947 SHEPRETH FROG END (west side)
21/323 No 2 (Manor Farmhouse) II
The address shall be amended to read: FROG END (west side)
No 2, LORD'S MANOR (formerly listed as Manor Farmhouse) The description shall be amended to read:
House. Mid C19. Timber framed, roughcast-rendered on brick plinth. Tiled roofs. Double range plan. Two storeys. Three window range of cross frame casements. Central doorway in gabled porch, with four-centred outer arch with carved spandrels probably C19. The inner archway is also four-centred again with carved spandrels, one with a collared lion sitting, partly late C16. The door itself is of a similar date, six panels with cover strips and original iron fittings including the iron knocker in the form of a closed hand. Inside. One ground floor room has a very fine early C16 ceiling beam of deeply hollow and roll moulded profile. One end of the beam is continued into the wall as a post, the moulding also continuous. The outer end terminates in a corbel finely carved with naturalistic foliage.and a tripping cockerel. This room is also lined with early C17 square sunk panelling, with a fine contemporary fireplace. This fireplace has an overmantel in three bays divided by paired Doric columns with entablature of strapwork, frieze and dentil cornice on enriched brackets. Below the modern brick hearth is flanked by strapwork pilasters. Possibly these features came from the former manor house on the site which was owned and enlarged by John Layer (d.1641) the antiquarian. Pevsner: Buildings of England p.454 R.C.H.M: Record Card 1949 V.C.H: Cambs Vol 5,p253 Dr W M Palmer: Chatteris Manor and John Rayner Cambs & Hunts Society Excursion 1922 Cambs, c. 443.4 Dr W M Palmer: John Layer of Shepreth (1935)
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TL 3947 SHEPRETH FROG END (West side) 21/323 No. 2 (Manor Farmhouse) II
House. Mid C19. Timber framed, roughcast rendered on brick plinth. Tiled roofs. Plan of two contemporary, parallel and adjoining ranges. Two storeys. Three window- range of cross-frame casements. Central doorway in gabled porch, brick with four centred outer arch. The inner archway is also four centred and the head of the arch is late C16 or early C17, reset. The arch is moulded and the spandrels are carved, one with a collared lion sitting. The door is of similar date. Six panels with cover strips and original iron fittings including the iron knocker in the form of a closed hand. Inside: Two ground floor rooms have particularly fine C16 and early C17 overmantels and beams reset from another house. This was possibly the manor house on the site, which was owned and enlarged by John Layer (d.1641), the antiquarian. One room has a fine early C16 ceiling of deeply hollow and roll moulded joists and main beams. One end of the main beam is continued into the wall as a post, the moulding also continuous. The outer end terminates in a corbel finely carved with naturalistic foil age and a tripping cockerel. This may refer to Bishop Alcock, Bishop of Ely in late C15. Another reference may be to Christ's College, Cambridge. The overmantel is early C17 and in three bays divided by paired Doric columns with entablature of strapwork frieze and dentil cornice on enriched brackets. Below, the modern hearth is flanked by strapwork pilasters. The room is lined with early C17 square sunk panelling. Another room at ground floor has an overmantel, also early C17. The mantelpiece is carried on four pairs of rustic Atlantes and caryatids with panels of naturalistic foliage between. The overmantel is in three rectangular bays divided by paired Doric columns, the outer bays have round headed blind arcading and the centre bay a raised square panel, with central carved boss and raised border of gadrooning and foliate ornament. The entablature to the overmantel has frieze of jewelled ornament, and enriched brackets supporting a modillion cornice.
Pevsner: Buildings of England p.454 V.C.H.: Cambs. Vol. 5. p.253 R.C.H.M: Record card (1949 Dr. U.M. Palmer: Chatteris Manor and John Rayner. Cambs. and Hunts. Society Excursion 1922. Cambs. c.443.4 Dr. W.M. Palmer: John Layer of Shepreth (1935)
Listing NGR: TL3934047406
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52375
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Palmer, W M, John Layer of Shepreth, (1935)
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 253
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 454
Palmer, W M, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Society Excursion in Chatteris Manor and John Rayner, (1922), 443-4
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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