Latitude: 52.6341 / 52°38'2"N
Longitude: -1.7008 / 1°42'2"W
OS Eastings: 420345
OS Northings: 304080
OS Grid: SK203040
Mapcode National: GBR 4FD.W9F
Mapcode Global: WHCH3.V18Y
Plus Code: 9C4WJ7MX+JM
Entry Name: The Manor House
Listing Date: 11 May 1950
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1197029
English Heritage Legacy ID: 386534
ID on this website: 101197029
Location: The Leys, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79
County: Staffordshire
District: Tamworth
Electoral Ward/Division: Castle
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Tamworth
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Church of England Parish: Tamworth St Editha
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: House
TAMWORTH
SK2004SW LICHFIELD STREET 670-1/6/105 (North side) 11/05/50 No.95 The Manor House
GV II
House, now offices. Early C19 remodelling of earlier house, with C17/18 origins. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped tile roof. Georgian style. Double-depth central-staircase plan. 2 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range, 2 windows to each end in forward breaks. Ashlar plinth, ground floor sill band; top cornice. Entrance up 3 steps has doorcase with architrave, fluted frieze and consoled cornice, overlight to 6-panel door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches, those to ground floor over 12-pane sashes; 1st floor has windows with sills, and 12-pane top-hung casements. End small single-storey wings have entrances with doorcases, that to left with stone-coped parapet, that to right with segmental-headed window with 12-pane sash. Rear has architraved entrance with large windows to forward break to left with 12-pane sashes. Interior much altered, with stick-baluster stair. Reputed to be the home of Sir Thomas Guy, the founder of Guy's Hospital, London and Guy's Almshouses, Tamworth, who also built the Town Hall (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SK2034504080
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