The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, CHESTNUT SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382014
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, CHESTNUT SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382014
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, CHESTNUT SQUARE
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, CHESTNUT SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wellesbourne and Walton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 27778 55212
Details
WELLESBOURNE
SP2655 CHESTNUT SQUARE
1901-1/12/229 (North side)
20/07/95 Wellesbourne Mountford
The Manor House
GV II
Manor house. 1857, incorporating elements of earlier house,
with 1880s rear extension. For Revd John Lucy. Brick with buff
headers; gabled tile roofs with brick end stacks and
cross-axial and end stacks to rear, all with diagonal shafts
and caps. Victorian-Tudor style. Irregular plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; asymmetrical 5-window range. 3 wide bays
break forward under gables with narrower bays between. Brick
plat bands and wide eaves and verges. Entrance to right of
centre has gabled hood and overlight to door. Windows have
sills and wood mullioned and transomed frames with decorative
glazing with elongated octagons; ground floor has central
segmental-headed window with 3-light glazing; similar,
narrower window to left with 2-light glazing; canted bay to
each end with hipped roof over 1:3:1-light glazing. First
floor has cross-mullioned windows, those to wide bays with
segmental heads and narrow glazed gable lights.
Rear gabled wing with range parallel to main range, with
small-paned cross-casements, small single-storey addition with
timber dovecote to gable and flat-roofed re-entrant block.
INTERIOR: ground floor has some chamfered beams; large C19
fireplace to right end has Tudor arch and cornice; stone
cellar walls.
HISTORY: the original house was the property of the Venour
family 1560-1857 and was then brought and rebuilt by the Revd
John Lucy of Charlecote and Hampton Lucy.
(Bolton, EMR & Bolton, PM: A Wellesbourne Guide: Wellesbourne
Mountford: Wellesbourne: 1989-: 20-21).
Listing NGR: SP2777855212
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482379
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bolton, E M R, Bolton, P M, A Wellesbourne Guide: Wellesbourne Mountford, (1989), 20-21
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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