Description

SU 98 NW
3/1

TAPLOW
WOOBURN COMMON ROAD
Sheepcote Manor

II
1914 country house built for G Aird. Inscribed G A 1914. Red brick and timber-frame neo C16 style with steep old tile roofs and tall modelled brick stacks.

Two storeys, L plan. Garden front has three large jettied timber-framed gables with herringbone brick infill and oak mullioned windows. All windows leaded. Ornamental downpipes and gutter across centre at first floor level. Ground floor centre has three French windows each with brick arched heads carrying upper mullion with top lights each side. To each side a three sided brick bay with brick mullions and transomes to windows.

Entrance front has door under large jettied gable at north end, two storey range with upper floor tile-hanging to left and brick stair tower in angle to rear range, which has three hipped dormers with brick surrounds and a two and a half storey projecting end gable, tile-hung in upper floors.

Interiors: largely neo c1700, stair with heavy moulded rail and turned balusters. In a room by front door a small ceiling with crude decorative plaster, possibly original early C17.

Listing NGR: SU9259187267

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26418062

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  For the Record
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)