Description

SK 13 SW PARISH OF DOVERIDGE PICKLEYS LANE
2/21 (East Side)
13.9.67 Manor House
II*

House. Early C18 and early C20. Red brick and plain tile hipped roofs with four
brick stacks. First and second floor brick bands. white painted dentilled eaves
cornice. H-plan with early C20 wing to north. Two storeys. West elevation of four
bays. Three right hand bays originally symmetrical with the outer bays projecting.
Recessed centre bay now has projecting early C20 brick porch with plain stone
entablature and dentilled pediment. Keyed round-arched doorway flanked by pilasters.
Plank door and glazed overlight. Top hung casements on either side with leaded
lights. Three-light wooden casement window above with transom. Gauged brick lintel
with keyblock. Left hand bay has a similar 3-light window to ground and first floor
and right bay has a similar window to the first floor. The one to the ground floor
has been replaced by an early C20 canted bay. Two hipped-roof dormers on projecting
bays. Early C20 wing to left has projecting flat roofed ground floor bay with early
C18 style cross window. Early C18 style 2-light window above. Roof dormer. Garden
elevation has similar 3 and 4-light windows with transoms. Left hand bay has to the
ground floor an early C20 bow window. Attached to the north east corner is an
early C18 outbuilding said to have been an oast house. Pitched roof with one brick
gable stack. Brick bands and dentilled eaves cornice. Two storeys with 3-light
casement window under segment head to west. Blind openings and ventilation holes
to north and south. Interior of house has oak panelled entrance hall and open well
staircase rising through three storeys. Panelling continues to first floor. The
staircase has closed string, turned balusters and ramped handrail. C17 style
panelling. Stone flag floor to entrance hall, and raised and fielded panel doors.
Curved C17 overmantel, possibly German. The sitting room has a Flemish style
chimneypiece. Dining room has a neo-Jacobean chimneypiece incorporating genuine
fragments. Early C18 back staircase with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SK1221833872

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545776

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)