BILLESLEY MANOR HOTEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1382696
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: BILLESLEY MANOR HOTEL
Statutory Address:: BILLESLEY MANOR HOTEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1382696
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: BILLESLEY MANOR HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: BILLESLEY MANOR HOTEL

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BILLESLEY MANOR HOTEL

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Billesley
National Grid Reference:: SP 14634 56780

Details

BILLESLEY

SP15NW Billesley Manor Hotel 1931-1/1/1 06/02/52 (Formerly Listed as: Billesley Manor)

GV II*

Manor house, now hotel. c1610-20 with C18 extension to west, altered in C19, and 1906-13 addition to rear wing by Detmar Blow. Coursed squared blue lias with sandstone ashlar dressings; steeply pitched renewed tile roof with brick or stone ridge and internal stacks, mostly with brick diagonally set shafts. L-plan. EXTERIOR: south, garden, front of 2 storeys plus attic; 7-window range. End bays and entrance bay to right of centre project under coped gables with kneelers and finials. Ovolo-moulded plinth and dripcourse over ground floor. Entrance bay has round-headed entrance arch with foliate spandrels, Doric columns and Tuscan entablature; inner Tudor-arched entrance with 3-light overlight, side lights and paired studded doors, panelled side benches. Double-chamfered mullioned-and-transomed windows with leaded glazing, moulded sills to first and second floors; those to ground floor of 6 lights with 1:6:1-light bay window to each end; first floor windows of 4 lights, but porch has 3-light windows, window to right end is cross-mullioned with eared architrave; attic has windows to gables and gabled dormer to left of centre: 3-light windows to left, 2-light windows to right, the end one in architrave. Right return has gabled left end, catslide re-entrant bay and symmetrical 5-window range with lower service range to right end. Round-headed entrance has rusticated jambs and pilasters to moulded arch with key blocks; lantern and 2-fielded-panel door. Windows as to front, of 3, 4, or 5 lights; 3-light gable window and 3 gabled dormers. Rear has 2 lateral stacks and 2-storey gabled wing with 4-light single-chamfered mullioned window and C19 brick wing with cross-casement; first floor has wooden mullioned and transomed windows of 3 and 4 lights; adjacent wing has similar return windows and 2-storey addition with 3-storey C20 wing behind. Late C20 wing in C17 style to west end. INTERIOR: wing has room with exposed beams, ovolo-moulded fireplace and timber screen to south end with elliptical-headed doorway and flanking panels, fluted pilasters, triglyph frieze to entablature and 3 pierced pediments, 15-panel door. Full-height hall to south has staircase and gallery to 2 sides mostly C20 reconstruction; rich C17 panelling with strapwork and fluted pilasters, Tudor-arched fireplace and enriched overmantel, doors with rich C17 locks of German or French workmanship; 6-light window, now to passage, to west; archway with continuous moulding to south leads to former screens passage to south porch. South-east room, formerly 2 rooms, has C17 panelling, possibly removed from first floor, and 2 Tudor-arched fireplaces; to west of passage a similar room, with central pier and large fireplace, doorcases with enriched entablatures; 2 rooms to west end have C18 details: entablatures and fireplaces with architraves, cornices and swags, cherubs etc; winding stair to west end. First floor has 2 richly panelled rooms with fireplaces, that to east end with deep window openings and enriched fireplace and overmantel with paired pilasters, reputed priest hide to chimney breast; room to west has panelling with enriched top panels and fireplace in partitioned-off corridor. A good example of a C17 manor house retaining many internal features of interest and with sympathetic early C20 additions. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 93; Victoria County History: Warwickshire: Styles P: London: 1945-: 58-61).

Listing NGR: SP1463456780

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Legacy System number:: 483081
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 93
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945)

Legal

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