Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357410
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357410
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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:
- MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodnewton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 03370 94453
Details
WOODNEWTON MAIN STREET TL0394 (North side) 19/202 Manor House 23/05/67 GV II Manor house. c.1740 for Seventh Earl of Westmorland, extended 1895. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar facade. Collyweston slate roof. Double depth plan; Palladian style. 2 storeys with attic. Main front of 3 bays under large pediment defining the gable end of the range. Centre bay breaks forward slightly. Central 6-panel door, with glazed toplights, has moulded stone surround with cornice above. Flanking 6-paned sash windows with plain ashler surrounds. Window frame, to left of entrance, is C18 with some original glass. 3 blank panels and broken pediment above. Central, first floor, 6-paned sash window has moulded stone architrave and is held in the pediment. Flanking bays each have sash window to ground and first floor with broad unmoulded architraves, those on the ground floor have round heads enclosing blind tympana. All sash windows are 6-paned with the exception of the ground floor right which is a C19 two-paned sash window. Cills of all ground floor windows are linked by a raised band. Moulded cornice at head of first floor windows also defines main gable pediment. Central sash window to attic has segmental head. Pediment to centre bay, at apex of gable, is also defined by moulded cornice. Large ashlar stack at apex. Late C19, single-storey one-bay extension to right has no windows to this elevation. Elevation of extension, to right, has sash windows and door, with ashlar surrounds. Side and rear elevation of main range have cross casements under wood lintels and flat stone arches. Centre bay of rear elevation breaks forward slightly. Late C19 extension to rear. Interior: spine beams and large open fireplace in kitchen, now blocked. The Seventh Earl of Westmorland whose principal residence was Apethorpe Hall (q.v.) held the manor of Woodnewton in the mid C18. The Manor House was probably used as a dower house as there is only one principal bedroom off the main staircase. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p168)
Listing NGR: TL0337094453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422536
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire, (1984)
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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