Worksop Manor, House and Stable Block

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SK 57 NE WORKSOP MANSFIELD ROAD (South side)

3/88 Worksop Manor, House and Stable Block 13.2.67

G.V. I

Country house and stable block. 1701-04; redesigned by James Paine for the Duchess of Norfolk, 1763; altered 1840 and later C19. Ashlar with hipped slate roofs. Plinth, first floor band, cornice, coped parapet, windows with projecting architraves, some with keystones, rusticated quoins, various panelled ridge and side wall stacks. 2 and 3 storeys some with attics. Quadrangle with screen wall to west and projecting basement wall of former house also to west. Approximately 25 bays wide by 14 bays deep. East exterior front has recessed central bay with projecting flanking wings. Round headed central gateway has moulded lintel and flanking pilasters and single glazing bar sash in tympanum. Flanked by single round windows and in return angles, lean-to porches with Doric corner piers. Above, pediment containing oval glazing bar light, flanked by single glazing bar sashes and by similar sashes in return angles. Above again, hexagonal timber bell turret with ball finial. Double depth flanking wings have single doors with moulded architraves and 11 glazing bar sashes of various sizes on each floor, with projecting architraves, some with keystones. Courtyard interior north and south ranges, 14 bays, have 3 doorways with scrolled brackets to flat hoods, 4 smaller doors without hoods, and 7 glazing bar sashes. Above, 14 glazing bar sashes, and above again, 8 dormers with alternating pediments. East range has central pedimented gateway with 5-bay ranges either side, with central 3 arched arcades with pilastered surrounds. Exterior south front 1701-04, converted and extended to form house, c.1840, has 3 storey 11 bay front with off centre full height canted bay window containing 5 plain sashes on each floor. To its left, a single sash, and to right, 4 sashes. Above, 7 sashes and above again, 7 smaller sashes. C19 addition to left has smaller canted full height bay window with 3 plain sashes on each floor; to its left, a setback bay with a single sash on each floor. West range is a screen wall and pavilion by James Paine. Main central gateway and smaller flanking gateways; to left, pavilion. Plinth, impost band, entablature and parapet. 17 bays. Central gateway has paired giant flanking columns, and above, blind attic with recessed central panel and corner pilasters. Above again, concave sided podium with cornice carrying heraldic lion. Important wrought iron gates by Bakewell. Wall has giant Doric columns. Flanking gateways have round heads and similar gates. To left, octastyle portico. East side has single round headed niches flanking central gateway with round blank panels above, and round headed blind arcading with intermediate pilasters. Rusticated basement wall has central projecting bay with 4 round headed keystoned openings, and at each end a projecting 3 bay flanking wing. That to left has single coped gable and balustrade; 3 glazing bar sashes with keystoned lintels and to left, octagonal glazed C19 porch. Above, 3 dormers with alternating pediments. Interior has fine mid C18 fireplace. flanking walls have each 6 blank openings. Similar openings on south side. Cornice and balustrade with urns. Ramped coped buttress at west end. Originally built for the sixth Earl of Shrewsbury, late C16. Greatly altered and extended, and stables built, for the eighth Duke of Norfolk, 1701-04. Internal alterations by James Paine from 1756. Destroyed by fire 1761; rebuilt by Paine 1761-67. Demolished and altered by the Duke of Newcastle, 1840. Sources: Pevsner: M. Binney, Country Life Mar. 1973.

Listing NGR: SK5699078018

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Sources

Books and journals
Country Life in March, (1973)

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