Description

ADSTONE B4525
SP55SE (North side)
1/23 Adstone House and attached
01/12/51 garden wall
(Formerly listed as The Manor
House)

GV II*

Manor house. Mid/late C17. Coursed dressed ironstone, plain-tile hipped roof,
stone ridge stack, blue brick lateral stacks, that to right on stone base.
H-plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Central part-glazed door in moulded
wood surround with timber lintel and timber porch. Above is a 3-light chamfered
stone mullion leaded window with hood mould. Similar 4-light windows to ground
and first floors of wings, those to ground floor with hood moulds. Blocked
1-light windows to ground and first floors of inner sides of wings with
double-chamfered stone surrounds and hood moulds. Two 2-light flat-faced stone
mullion cellar windows to right wing. Chamfered stone plinth and eaves. Stone
ridge stack has 4 square stone flues with chamfered bases and moulded tops.
Hipped roof dormers. Attached garden wall to left encloses garden on road side
and has ridged stone coping. Interior has stop-chamfered spine beams, and C17
open-well cantilevered timber staircase with fat turned balusters and ball
finials. Staircase rises from ground floor to attic and has splat balusters to
top landing. A portion of panelling with strapwork from former Long Gallery at
top of house hangs on staircase. Another staircase in hall, probably late C18,
with stick balusters, ramped and wreathed handrail and carved tread ends. One
room has C17 pegged panelling. Spice cupboard with labelled drawers in kitchen.

Listing NGR: SP5942851530

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545152

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)