Description

TL 2796; TL 2696 WHITTLESEY STATION ROAD (West Side)

21/127; 22/127 Manor House 23. 6.52

GV II

House. Mainly late C17 but with part of South range C15. Rubblestone with dressed limestone to openings. Some timber framing, rendered to late C17 addition. Collyweston stone slate roofs, and cement tiles. Gabled roof with hollow moulding to end parapets, and hipped roofs to late C17 parts. South range has ridge stack, C15, with upper courses rebuilt in brick C18-C19 and North range a late C17 ridge stack of dressed stone with entablature. Projecting side stacks to both North and South ranges at the rear. Original plan of C15 house is not known but the surviving part is incorporated in a single range, with late C17 extension to East and another larger addition to the North, The present house forms an L-plan with the principal entry in the North range. South range is of two storeys. One original Cl5 window of two trefoil lights in ogee arches in square head and four C17 windows of four lights each with ovolo mullions and stone surrounds except for one to left hand with wooden mullions and surround. Two, two-stage buttress, one with reset medieval moulded stonework. Dressed stone to quoins of buttresses. On the North side one C15 window opening has been remodelled externally. In late C17 a bay was added to this range to the East. Similar materials except for one wall with some framing rendered. Hipped stone slate roof. Two storeys with a similar four light window with ovolo mullions. House remodelled late C17 when North range added. Two storeys and attic. Three gabled dormers with original leaded light casements. Plain dressed stone band above four original window openings now with C20 windows. Band between storeys. Three windows, C20 casements on either side of doorway with canopy and C20 door. Service door to right hand is original. Inside: at first floor, one four light ovolo mullion window now obscured by later C17 addition. In the C15 part, the rear arches of the windows are segmental and chamfered and have deep splays. There is a late C17 staircase, possibly reset, in the North range with pear shaped balusters.

Pevsner: Buildings of England p483

Listing NGR: TL2699896920

External Links

• Wikidata Q26568627

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