Description

BAGENDON BAGENDON VILLAGE SP 00 NW 6/4 Bagendon Manor or Manor Farm (formerly listed as Manor House) 4.6.52

GV II

Manor house. Early C18. Limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins; dressed stone porch; stone slate roof with limestone rubble stacks; concrete tile roofing to the outbuildings. 'U'- shaped plan; small courtyard at rear now infilled with a single- storey gabled extension; minor outbuildings on the west and lean- to at rear of the main body. Two storeys, attic and cellar. Symmetrical, 5-windowed facade with central projecting porch and dressed stone plinth. All windows stone-mullioned cross windows with square-sectioned mullions and plain dressed stone architraves; band between floors; two 2-light slate hung hipped dormers. Central early plank door with fillets within a flat-chamfered surround, within a gabled porch with C20 double doors with glazing bars and fanlight all within a raised round-headed surround with keystone and imposts continued as a band. Cross-mullioned windows to the left-hand return. Two-light stone-mullioned to the cellar below. Panelled doorway with plain architrave and keystone far left. One cross-mullioned window and several 2-light stone- mullioned windows, also with square-sectioned mullions to the right-hand return. All windows with (probably late C19) leaded panes. Hipped roof with ridge and lateral stacks. Interior not inspected but reputed to contain a modern staircase and no early features of note. Verey mentions a pair of Georgian arches within the hall opposite the entrance. The house is reputed to have been 'rebuilt' by Edward Haines during the C19. (D. Verey, The Buildings of England: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SP0116606705

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover