THE OLD MANOR HOUSE

THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1355951
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1355951
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET

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, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Swindon (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Highworth
National Grid Reference:: SU2024892453

Details

18/267

HIGHWORTH HIGH STREET (South Side) Nos 1 & 2 (The Old Manor House)

Part 1 of the item shall include the previous listing data 26.1.55

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1. 5410 SU 2092 SW 18/267

HIGHWORTH HIGH STREET (South Side) Nos 1 and 2 (The old Manor House)

II* GV

2. Dated 1656. Recasting of much older house thought to incorporate retrains of a C15 hall. Two storeys, coursed rubble with stone slate roof of steep pitch. Chimney to left hand gable renewed, moulded capping. Two 4 light mullion windows with drips on first floor and central datestone panel with carved axe and "BIS.1656". Ground floor altered for late C191early C20 shop front. Central entrance and flanking windows, house door to right, all under drip, with brick piers and quoins and moulded stops to chamfers on fascia. Rough stone fascia. Gable end to east shews a bressumer end. Interior: large Tudor arch fireplace on ground floor and a small one on first floor, mid C17. Moulded plank and muntin partition to first floor. Caricole stair to right of ground floor fireplace.

Listing NGR: SU2024892453

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Legacy System number:: 318386
Legacy System:: LBS

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