Description

TL 41NW WARE RURAL BLAKESWARE
Wareside
3/3 Blakesware Manor
(Formerly listed under Wareside)
18.5.76

GV II

Country house, now 5 houses. 1876-9 ('1878' on garden front) by
George Devey for Mrs Hadsley Gosselin. R C chapel for Sir Martin
Gosselin opened 1896, house reduced and altered 1937 after fire
bv Paul Phipps, range linking chapel to house rebuilt as monastic
building 1968, house subdivided with separate porches in early
Renaissance style in 1980's. Red brick with blue diaper work and
stone dressings. Steep red tile roofs. A tall 3-and 4-storeys
scholarly neo-Tudor house, now L-shaped with the entrance court
within the angle. The garden front (E) of 3-storeys has
mullioned and transomed bay windows, Tudor arched doorways, and
central tower with open lantern. Chapel in matchinq style with
steep tiled roof and panelled E end. The country house of 1876-9
replaced a brick house of 1664 built for Sir Thomas Leventhorpe
of Sawbridgeworth which Charles Lamb described under the name of
Blakesmoor (demolished in 1822). (VCH (1912) 389: Pevsner
(1977) 406: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL4066316488

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26499899

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)