Description

TR 0446 0546 WYE CHURCH STREET
(east side)

8/222 No. 36 (The Old
Manor House)
27.11.57

GV II*

House. Late C16. Red brick in English bond with tile hanging to rear wing.
Plain tiled roof. Two cell lobby entry plan with rear service wing. Two
storeys on plinth with kneelered parapet gable to right, and truncated stack
projecting at end right, and stack at end left with octagonal bases to
truncated round chimney shafts. Catslide outshot to left. Two 3 light
wooden casements on each floor and old boarded door to left in moulded and
stop-chamfered doorway. Garage doors to left in outshot. Kneelered
parapet gabled rear wing, partly tile hung. Interior: contemporary
staircase rising to attic with finialed principals. Ovolo moulded window
mullions (with some C17 glass). Inglenook fireplaces. Clasped purlin and
wind-brace roof. "Feare God Honour ye King Thomas Miller 1701" inscribed
in attic plasterwork. The house was not the manor house, but the Bailiff's
house and used as the town's prison. It originally stood alone in the
Green opposite the Church, Market cross and College. (See Wye Local History
Magazine A.M. Paterson).

Listing NGR: TR0541346816

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556419

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Recommended Books

• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  For the Record
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)