Manley Knoll

Manley Knoll, Manley

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380568
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: Manley Knoll
Statutory Address:: Manley Knoll, Manley

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380568
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: Manley Knoll
Statutory Address 1:: Manley Knoll, Manley

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:: Manley Knoll, Manley

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

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Manley
National Grid Reference:: SJ 51271 72524

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/01/2021 to reformat the text to current standards

SJ57SW 1184/3/10007

MANLEY Manley Knoll

28-JUN-00 II

Small Country House. 1912-14, for Llewellyn Jones, construction being interrupted by the First World War, completed and subsequently remodelled internally by James Henry Sellers, architect, of Manchester in 1922 for the Demetriades family.

Materials: buff-brown brick with orange brick dressings, timber framing and roughcast used together, with prominent brick ridge and gable chimneys and a plain clay tile roof covering. Eclectic Vernacular Revival style, with varied pattern of timber framing.

Plan: irregular linear plan form, with principal rooms to the garden front, and corridor linking the rooms to the entrance and stair hall to the rear.

Exterior: asymmetrical entrance front of two storeys, with off-centre three-sided entrance porch with stone canopy and canted upper storey. To the left, a timber-framed projection, to the right, three-sided staircase bay, and a roughcast projecting service bay with gablets and two- and three- light windows with casements. Garden front with four prominent timber framed gables, a coupled pair to the left, and a large and small gable to the right, separated by a central recessed loggia supporting a balcony. The gables are detailed with a variety of framing patterns , some with cusped bargeboards and jettying. To the far left, a single storeyed brick billiard room added in the 1920s.

Interior: hall and stair hall, divided by a screen of three segmental arches, with oak dado, doors and doorcases. Dining room with oak panelling, built-in cupboards and writing desk , and an inlaid marble fireplace. Library with Oak panelling, doors and built-in bookcases. Drawing room with exposed timber-framing and a large inglenook fireplace with stone surround. Open-well, closed-string staircase with barleysugar balusters and newel posts with finials. Some bedrooms with fireplaces with inset Delft tilework. Bathroom to south-east corner with exposed timber-framing, oak panelling and built-in cupboards. Most of the interior is thought to be the work of Sellers.

A small early-C20 house in a Vernacular Revival style notable for its little-altered interiors of good quality by James Henry Sellers.

Listing NGR: SJ5127172524

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 480841
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
De Figueiredo, P, Treuherz, J, Cheshire Country Houses, (1988)

Legal

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