Almeley Manor
ALMELEY MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1349938
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Almeley Manor
- Statutory Address:
- ALMELEY MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1349938
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Almeley Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALMELEY MANOR
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:
- ALMELEY MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Almeley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 33140 51604
Details
ALMELEY CP - SO 35 SW 1/5 Almeley Manor 20.2.53 GV II* House. Probably C16 with C17 and early C20 additions. Sandstone rubble plinth and timber-frame with brick infill. Sandstone slate roofs and brick end stacks. Rectangular plan aligned west-north-west/east-south- east with southern porch. Two storeys and attic. South elevation has 3:1:1:1 windows, late C20 square casements with projecting gabled porch to right of centre and gable front to right-hand side. Gable has one 3-light contemporary window to each storey. Ground floor of main range has two 2-light windows to left-hand side and between them and the porch a 3-light window. To the right of the porch is a small single-light window. Lower timber-framed extension to left of main range has one 2- light window. Porch has two storeys with sandstone rubble return walls to ground storey and timber-framed upper storey. Lintel over entry is brattished. First storey has 2-light window. Tie-beam of gable is supported on projecting brackets. In the gable is a king-post with herringbone struts. Tie-beam resembles a re-used joist. Within the porch is plaster-filled framing and to the left a ledged door. Frame has two square panels up to first floor level and, to the left of the porch, two more to first floor. To right of porch first floor has narrow studding as does gable of porch and the right-hand gable which also has herringbone struts. Attached to rear is early C20 extension. Interior has C16 ceiling in principal eastern room comprising 16 panels with multiple roll moulded margins and subsidiary pyramidally chamfer-stopped joists arranged in alternating orientation to produce chequerboard effect. Fireplace in same room has roll moulded stone jambs, and chamfered segmental oak lintel on which is a small inscription in block-letters. Adjacent is some C17 panelling with fluted margins. Entrance hall has a section of similar panelling made into a door. Western ground floor room of main range has Four-centred arch to stone fireplace, restored in mid-C20. First floor room of east part has two corbel heads in primitive style, possibly C12, re-set in fireplace. To the left is an ogee-headed niche. Two triangular headed blocked doorways in centre part; some roof trusses have angle struts; others queen struts. (BoE, p 65; RCHM, Vol III, p 6).
Listing NGR: SO3314051604
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150374
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 6
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 65
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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