BRADENHAM MANOR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1332048
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:: BRADENHAM MANOR
Statutory Address:: BRADENHAM MANOR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1332048
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: BRADENHAM MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: BRADENHAM MANOR

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BRADENHAM MANOR

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bradenham
National Grid Reference:: SU 82877 97081

Details

BRADENHAM BRADENHAM VILLAGE SU 89 NW

3/71 Bradenham Manor (formerly listed as Manor House) 21.6.55

GV II*

Training college. Circa 1670, probably for Sir Edmund Pye and wife Catherine Lucas whose arms appear on staircase ceiling. S. wing incorporates remains of C16 house of Windsor family. Altered mid C19 and early C20. Brick, once colourwashed, with hipped old tile main roofs, slate pitches over narrow rear range, and panelled brick chimneys. 2 storeys, basement, and attic. W. front has 9 bays of red brick with red mortar. Plinth of older brick in English bond, moulded first floor band course, moulded eaves with narrow dentils, narrow recessed panels between windows. Windows have moulded brick architrave surrounds, those to ground floor with raised friezes and moulded brick cornices that interrupt band course. C19 3-pane sashes with narrow glazing bars. 2 basement windows to right, 4 flat-roofed dormers with small sashes. Central C20 doors with radiating fanlight, doorcase of fluted pilasters and open segmental pediment, and rusticated surround of whitewashed render with segmental head. Approached by flight of 8 moulded stone steps flanked by pair of stone pedestals with carved reclining dogs. Single storey extensions of 1903 to left. 3 additional bays to right are of mid-late C18 vitreous header brick with red dressings and deep first floor band course. These bays have blind sashes, later sash to first floor left, mid C19 arched window with stained glass to ground floor left, and 2 dormers. S. front has 8 bays similar to main W. front, but is of irregular brickwork without recessed panels between windows. 4th window formerly a door, 5th bay has false windows. 3 dormers. Rear is irregular, of red and vitreous brick, partly chequered, with first floor band and dentil eaves. Sash windows with gauged brick heads. Central staircase Projection has pair of blind oval windows and altered 3-light window below. Projection in angle with S. wing has old panelled door and Gothick glazing in window above. 1903 extensions project to right. Interior: main staircase is c.1670 with turned balusters, wide moulded handrail, closed string and panelled newels with ball finials. Painted ceiling above has matching illusionistic balustrade with corner urns, and sky with clouds and putti carrying coat of arms. Later entry from staircase to hall has 2 painted illusionistic niches with statues. Another staircase in S. wing with more slender balustrade, altered. Remainder altered mid C19 and early C20. Home of Isaac Disraeli 1830-48. (International Computers and Tabulators Ltd., Bradenham Manor Past and Present, 1965.

Listing NGR: SU8287797081

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Legacy System number:: 46551
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Bradenham Manor Past and Present, (1965)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.