Description

BLACKMORE

TL6001 CHURCH STREET 723-1/15/16 (East side) 20/02/76 The Old Manor House with attached railings and gate (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD CHURCH STREET, Blackmore (East side) Old Manor House)

GV II

House. Early C19. Gault and red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with slate. Shallow rectangular plan facing S (gable end to street) with 2 internal rear stacks, 2 storeys. Service range to right comprising 2 storey lean-to with stack in junction wall, and short wing beyond of one storey and attic with external stack at end. Single-storey weatherboarded and slated corridor lean-to at rear, full length of house, added at an early date. EXTERIOR: the front elevation of the main range is of gault bricks, the remainder of red bricks. Symmetrical elevation. On ground floor 2 original sashes of 3+6 lights with slender glazing bars, flat brick arches, and original external louvred shutters. On first floor 3 original sashes of 6+6 lights with similar glazing bars and arches. The lower right window is of teak, the others of pine, all conservatively repaired c1988. Central 5-panel door with heavy mouldings and glazed top panel, in original wooden porch with 2 round columns with simple bases and caps, each side; 2 stone steps. Low-pitched roof with wide overhanging eaves. Each stage of the service range is set back, with 2 cast-iron casements on ground floor and one on first floor; some crown glass on first floor; segmental arches. Cement rendered dado at front and left side. The gable end has many blue headers; moulded wooden cornice forming a pediment at the gable. RAILINGS AND GATE attached at front left corner; wrought-iron stanchions with cranked stays, 3 original cast-iron urn terminals (3 exact replicas being cast at Rayne Foundry, 1989); wrought-iron railings with spearheads; cast-iron sill on brick plinth; gate with dipped top rail and original spring latch, all wrought-iron. INTERIOR: almost all internal features are original. Central stair hall with 6-panel door to each side, each with reeded architrave and paterae. Curved stair with turned pine newels, stick balusters, mahogany handrail, semi-elliptical arch below. On first floor, half-glazed door to middle room, 2-panel pine doors to each side room; similar door with planted mouldings to first floor of service range. Folding shutters to ground-floor windows. Both ground-floor fireplaces are original, with cast-iron reeded architraves and paterae. First-floor fireplaces blocked 1988, one similar cast-iron fire surround loose but still on premises January 1989, the other replaced in c1900. A special feature is that the original external brickwork of the rear wall with fine incised lines in the mortar, now limewashed, has been preserved in excellent condition by the early addition of the lean-to corridor. The original louvred shutters merit special care. The boundary wall to east of the property has a stone tablet stating that it was built and owned by JN GODFREY, 1839.

Listing NGR: TL6033901769

External Links

• Wikidata Q26491649

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (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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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2