Description

SHEPRETH FOWLMERE ROAD
TL 3947
(North east side)
21/322
Wimbish Manor(No. 29)
II

Manor house. Early C18 and mid C19. Red brick with patterned red and burnt
brickwork to mid C19 front wall and some timber framing from C18 or earlier
house visible internally in the rear wall. Embattled, slate roofs with
moulded brick eaves cornice to front. North range has C18 red brick ridge
stack and range to south end stacks. Plan of two parallel linked ranges,
with small extensions on the north side and ends. Three storeys. Range of
three flush frame hung sashes with central glazing bars, in gauged brick
arches. Central Roman Doric portico of Ketton stone but the entablature is
wood and has a dentil cornice. Inside: one ground floor room has some raised
and fielded panelling below the dado and to the overmantel and shutters.
There is a cellar. Principal staircase of C19-C20 wrot-ironwork. The -
principal front was originally on the north side.

R.C.H.M.: Record Card

Listing NGR: TL3975647801

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26459318

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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