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TQ 06 NE
3/8

SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, FORMER UD
Shepperton
CHURCH ROAD
Manor House

9/12/69

GV
II*
House. Circa 1820; said to have been built for a Mr James Scott. Incised painted stucco with hipped slate roof. Two storeys over basement to left, lower two storey range to right; C20 service range to right end. Garden front to south with three bay return to east, entrance front now to north.

Entrance front: eaves soffit. Two twelve-pane, glazing-bar sash windows to first floor left; tripartite glazing-bar sash window below. Two six-pane sashes to attic on right, nineteen-pane glazing-bar sash window and one tripartite glazing-bar sash to first floor. Three twelve-pane glazing-bar sashes below. Shallow break to centre with arched staircase window rising through upper floors. C20 entrance porch with six-panel door to centre in fixed flanking windows. Wide C20 pedimented portico on two marble-painted columns with abstracted triglyph frieze over. Ribbed lead roofed extensions stepping down to right.

Left hand return front (east): three first floor twelve-pane sash windows; angle bay to ground floor left. South, garden, front: five bays. Four twelve-pane glazing-bar sash windows to first floor, casement to first floor left. Central angle bay with tent-roofed verandah on either side supported by paired, lotus-leaf capital thin columns; tripartite sashes behind on either side.

Interior:- Main reception rooms, drawing room, tent room and dining room - show mid-C19 decoration of high quality. Panelled dining room ceiling with low relief plaster mouldings and ornately moulded cornice. Six-panelled doors with ornately moulded frieze, swags with putti over. Drawing room: trompe-l'oeil arrangement of panels framed by pilasters ornamented with foliate and floral motifs in a classical style. Doors with ornamented panels and moulded friezes, each with a crown putto set in a medallion framed by tendrils and flowers; marble fireplace with over-mantle in the form of a large mirror set in an ornately carved frame of pilasters with tendrils and flowers. Cornice arched over a relief of flowers in a vase. Two full, flat-arched window mirrors, each crowned with swags and a mask head in relief set in a medallion. A wide flat arch with scrolls leads out of the drawing room into: Tent Room: ceiling in the form of a trompe-l'oeil canopy, the walls with pilaster framed pointed panels and ornamented with swags and with inset painted busts of Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott.

Listing NGR: TQ0779366616

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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