Description

TL 18 SE SAWTRY HIGH STREET
(West Side)
5/59 The Manor House
28.1.58 (No 33)

II
House. 1795. Local gault brick, Flemish bond, with paler bricks to front
wall and more random brickwork to end and rear walls. Plain tiled, mansard
roof with ridge stack between front and kitchen wing at the rear and
projecting stack to the south gable end. L-plan. Two storeys and attic.
Three dormers. Symmetrical facade of three first floor sixteen pane flush
frame hung sashes with narrow glazing bars. The centre window is probably
later. Central doorway has triangular pediment with foliate motif to the
tympanum above dentil cornice and frieze with fluting, urns and a central open
shell motif. Flanking demi-Ionic fluted pilasters to doorway architrave.
Bi-valve door with four panels, the upper two have large round bosses and
pendant husk garlands. The garden doorway in the rear wall opposite the
principal doorway has a moulded surround with a pulvinated frieze and a raised
and fielded panelled door which has been reversed. Interior: Entrance hall
with original dentil cornice and stucco roundel ceiling piece formed by
tendril foliage in bolection moulded border. Raised and fielded panelled
doors, one to former dining-room also has beading to the panels. Original
staircase of four flights and two landings. The balustrade has been replaced
but the shaped tread ends remain. The dining-room has a fine Adam style
stucco ceiling. In the centre an eight pointed star enclosing festoon husks
with ribbons and pendants, medallions and a roundel centrepiece of running
foliage and flowers. The outer bands of ornament include serpentine foliage
with leaves and daisies, roses and pinks, and an outer border of festoons of
husks looped over a bolection moulding. The cornice has bands of egg and dart
and anthemion plasterwork. At first floor, one bedroom retains its cornice of
beading, foliate paterae and fluting and cyma moulding above a narrow frieze
of acanthus and mask medallions. Dated 1795 on beam in the roof.

Listing NGR: TL1665383910

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456376

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6