The Manor House and Attached Walls and Gates
THE MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371240
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House and Attached Walls and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES
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- Date:
- 2005-03-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/11564/33
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371240
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House and Attached Walls and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES
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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Stratford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 77962 39462
Details
OLD STRATFORD PASSENHAM SP7739, SP7839 19/81, 20/81 The Manor House and attached 05/06/86 walls and gates (Formerly listed as under Deanshanger C.P.)
GV II
Country house. Early C17 and C18 possibly with older origins, extended mid C19, repaired and attic nursery created by Sir Edwin Lutyens 1935. Coursed squared limestone, old plain-tile roofs, brick ridge, lateral and internal stacks. Complex plan. 2 storeys and attic; 10-window range. Gabled cross-wings project either end and just left of centre of long main range, with shallow 2-storey canted bay windows to gable ends of wings. Bays have tripartite sash windows to ground and 1st floors with stone lintels, keyblocks and hood moulds. 3-window section of main range between left and middle cross-wings has central gabled stone porch with moulded Tudor-arched head, hood mould and C20 door; carved stone head to gable of porch. Narrow rectangular 1-light windows to this section of main range with stone lintels, one and 2-light casement windows to section between middle and right cross-wings with stone lintels and keyblocks; all have hood moulds. Inner right side of left cross-wing has blocked window to ground floor and 3-light leaded casement window to 1st floor, both with wood lintels. C20 hipped dormer window to right of middle cross-wing. Stack at left end of main range has stone base. Cl8 brick plinth to flue. All stacks have terracotta chimneypots. Overhanging eaves. Garden elevation to rear has similar composition and irregular glazing of sash and casement windows. Space between middle and rear right cross-wings is filled by twin-gabled single-storey extension with valley. C20 part-glazed garden door to left of centre and row of tall gabled dormer windows, lighting nursery, to main range behind extension. Attached walls of coursed limestone rubble are capped with plain-tile slopes with brick coping to ridge and flank garden to rear and enclose forecourt, which has timber double-leaf gates. Interior: ogee stop-chamfered spine beans to ground and 1st floor and ogee-stop-chamfered cross beans to C17 core. Stone fireplace in hall with cambered head and keyblock. Other C18 and early C19 stone and marble chimneypieces probably brought-in C20. Main staircase has C17 style turned balusters and probably dates from c.1935. Fine panelled stair to nursery. 5-light ovolo-moulded wood mullion window, now internal, lights corridor. Stone cellar. Roof of middle cross-wing and to section of main range between middle and right cross-wings has stop-chamfered principal rafters and wind-braced purlins probably early C17. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p370)
Listing NGR: SP7796239462
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235318
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 370
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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