THE OLD MANOR HOUSE

THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, LITTLE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1338266
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, LITTLE SQUARE

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Date:: 2001-04-29
Reference:: IOE01/01754/13
Rights:: © Mr B.A.A. Gray. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1338266
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, LITTLE SQUARE

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:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, LITTLE SQUARE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL7571723126

Details

1. 885 TL 7523 1/123 25.10.51

LITTLE SQUARE BRAINTREE The Old Manor House

II*

2. A late C16 timber-framed and plastered house with an C18 cross wing at the north end. It stands on an island site and is an interesting and picturesque building with much original ornamentation. The fronts are now cement rendered but panels of C17 pargetting have been preserved on the east and west fronts, 3 storeys, attics and cellars. 2 window range on the east and west fronts, of the C16 block and 1 window range on the C18 cross wing. C18 fenestration, double-hung sashes with glazing bars (some with vertical glazing bars), The west front is double-jettied with moulded fascias, on shaped brackets (the lower bracket at the south end is carved). There are 2 C17 pargetted panels, one of a Tudor rose and crown and the other a Royal Coat of Arms. The east front was originally double-jettied and part of the upper jetty survives in a recessed centre panel on the 1st storey containing a C17 pargetted panel with griffons and a heraldic device surrounded by a floral border. All the C17 pargetting was much defaced in the C18. The . ground storey is built out with a C20 shop and the C18 crosswing has a C19 bow window. Roofs tiled, with 1 gabled dormer on the east front. RCHM (47).

Listing NGR: TL7571723126

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Legacy System number:: 113763
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)

Legal

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