Description

ILMINGTON FRONT STREET SP2143 (West side) 10/52 Ilmington Manor and attached 02/09/52 barn (Formerly listed as Ilmington Manor House)

- II*

Manor house. Early/mid C16, with early C20 additions. Limestone ashlar with quoins and coped gables. Stone slate roof with ashlar end stack and large external stack; the flues diagonally set, with moulded plinth and cornice. 2 storeys plus attic; 4-window range, with 3 gables rising to ridge level. L-shaped plan, with early C20 wing to rear. To centre right a C20 plank door within 4-centred, moulded surround with carved face on lintel. To ground floor a range of three 2, 3 and 4-light ovolo-moulded mullioned windows, that with 4 lights to right with king mullion. Further double-chamfered 4-light mullioned window to left. To first floor a range of one 2-light and two 3-light double-chamfered mullioned windows with further 4-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window to right with king mullion. Gables to left and centre have double-chamfered 2-light mullioned windows; that in gable to right a 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window. All mullioned windows have hood moulds with label stops and most have some or all old glass in their leaded lights. Left facade of 2 gables has a 4-light mullioned and transomed ovolo-moulded window to ground floor left with a 4-light ovolo-moulded and mullioned window above, and a 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window in left gable. Right gable has two 2 and one 3-light double chamfered mullioned windows. Two 2-light mullioned windows between gables, that to ground floor with ovolo moulding. Further 4-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window to rear gable, with 4- and 3-light windows above. Also to rear a smaller gabled range with a 3-light ovolo-moulded wood mullioned window with wood lintel. Large C20 gabled range between. To front first floor left, a moulded stone sundial. Attached by passage to right a barn converted to room, with C20 mullioned and transomed windows, 4-centred arched door and 4 hipped dormers. Raised to rear in C20. Interior: 3 stone, 4-centred arched fireplaces, one with carved spandrels, another with heavily moulded surround of ringed shafts, and carved spandrels, one with Tudor portcullis. Spine beams, some heavily moulded. Reset Jacobean fireplace, also reset linen-fold panelling. Chamfered single-light window with moulded ogee head. Roof in main range is queen post, with arched brace collar truss roof (2 trusses) in service cottage range attached to rear. This roof may be earlier than main building. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.5, p.98; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p,317),

Listing NGR: SP2113243524

External Links

• Wikidata Q17551261

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