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STANTON STANWAY ROAD SP 0634-0734 (west side) 11/91 The Manor and Warne Cottage (formerly listed as Manor House, Manor Way and Warne Cottage) 4.7.60 GV II* Formerly manor house, now one house and attached cottage. Early C16, 1577 for T. Warren (datestone), early C17, altered C18, probably C19, minor alterations early and mid C20. Roughly squared, coursed stone, stone slate roof. Three-room wing on right, gable to road, lower extension beyond; short link left to 'U' plan block, with long rear wing, all one room deep, 2 1/2 storeys. Facing road, right wing, plinth, mullioned windows with hollow chamfer, arched heads to lights, sunk spandrels, hoodmoulds. Gable, projecting chimney, string course, stone offsets, ashlar chimney with moulded cap; single slit either side to attic; parapet gable. Right return: 4-light window; boarded door up 3 stone steps, double ovolo surround, 4-centred arch with carved spandrels, strapwork frieze over, moulded cornice. Two-light window beyond, over 3-light in plinth to cellar, with plain chamfer and flat head. Above 3-light and 2-light windows, right gable stone slated; lower wing beyond. Left return, 3-light window to ground and first floor, 4-light casement in gabled dormer, king- post and curved braces, render between. Short link on left to 'U' shaped block, slit window to stairs. Right wing of 'U' wider than left: 4-light mullioned window, hollow chamfer, hoodmould. Boarded door with cover strips in recess , with semi-circular headed small door cut into it; chamfered arris, flat stone lintel, datestone over. Single light in right return left wing; 3-light mullion and transom to front, with hoodmould: to left jamb of former sash window with deep stone lintel. Above, 3-light mullioned window in right wing, hollow chamfer, hoodmould; similar 2-light over door; single-light windows in centre returns to wings; 2-light mullion and transom window left wing, 2-light mullion with hoodmould right wing, single-light left; parapet gables, cross-gablet apices with finials. Ashlar chimney parapet gable, left end and on ridge to right of door, both moulded caps. Interior: some walls timber-framed inside. Jacobean decoration to inside door: dogleg stairs with square newels, turned balusters, pulvinated string, moulded handrail: spiral stone stair with wood treads off to front: exposed beam and ceiling joists. Front room right wing, wide stone fireplace; 8 fielded-panel door, C18 cupboard with semi-circular back and head, panelled door below, fielded panel over: moulded plaster ceiling. Room to left, wide stone fireplace, flat 3-centred arch in timber lintel, moulded edge; oven and stone seat off fireplace on left: panelled shutters; ceiling divided into 8 by long and cross beams. First floor: 3-panel doors to landing, right wing; 3-board door to spiral stairs, with very old lock. Front room, right wing, stone fireplace and lintel; traces of C16 wall painting, exposed beam and joists in ceiling. Room to left stone fireplace surround with moulded shelf, cast-iron fireback with 2 figures, 2 panelled doors. Trusses, tie-beam and angled struts, one pair purlins, square ridge. Interior of Warne Cottage not inspected. Right wing early C16, as cross wing; 'U' range built 1577 partly on site of open hall. (Photographs at N.M.R.; W. G. Davie and E. G.'Dawber, Cottages, Farmhouses...... in the Cotswold District, 1904; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Cotswolds, 1970)

Listing NGR: SP0677034191

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