Description

COSTOCK CHURCH LANE SK 52 NE (east side) 5/1 The Manor House 14.5.52 II* Hall, house and attached chapel, now converted to domestic use. Late C15, some late Cl7, early C18, Cl9 and C20 alterations. Coursed rubble, ashlar dressings and red brick. Slate roofs. C15 house of coursed rubble. Large external left rubble stack with some brick patching and brick shaft. Single ridge and rear right red brick stacks. The outer single bays are gabled and are 2 storeys plus garret. The 3 bay centre being 2 storeys. Central lean-to porch with glazed double door flanked by single fixed lights. Either side are single C18 glazing bar sashes with drip moulds. Further left is a single C20 5 light casement with drip mould and further right a single similar 4 light C20 casement and drip mould. Above are 4 C18 glazing bar sashes, the single outer sashes with drip moulds. On the top floor are 2 C16 2 light ashlar mullion casements with drip moulds. To the right set back slightly is a C19 single storey single bay painted brick wing with ashlar coped parapet and single red brick stack to the rear. Single 3 light C20 casement. Further right and projecting is the former C19 2 storey single bay chapel. Red brick with some rubble single red brick stack to the right. Crow stepped ashlar coped gable with single ridge finial. Panelled clasping pilasters of 2 stages with bands and finials. First floor band. Single central early C19 re-used rose light. Above is a single tripartite casement with Tudor arched panel over with herringbone brick nogging. The left gable wall of the C15 build has a single light window to the right of the stack and a single 2 light ashlar mullion casement to the left. Above left is a single similar 2 light casement, further left is a single similar single light casement all with drip moulds, further drip mould to the left of the stack of the ground floor. Rear/entrance front of 5 bays. The outer 4 bays project and are each 2 storeys plus garret and gabled. The single bays second from the right and left being slightly narrower and that second left being slightly lower. Central lean-to C20 porch with C20 double door, marginal and over lights. To the right is single 2 light ashlar mullion casement with single similar 4 light window, on the far right to the left is a single moulded Tudor arched former doorway now containing a similarly arched C19 casement with decorative glazing bars. On the far left is a single 4 light ashlar mullion casement. Above, single central similar smaller 4 light casement, to the left are 2 similar 3 light casements, and to the right a single small single light casement and a single similar 3 light casement. The garrets of the inner single bays with single similar small casements. The outer bays with single similar 2 light casements. All openings apart from the C20 and the garret of the second left single bay-have drip moulds. All drip moulds C16 with roll and fillet moulding. All ashlar casements Cl6. Interior. Floor inserted in hall late C16. First floor with C16 stud partition extending the length of the hall, further stud partitions to bedrooms. Some C17 plank doors, many C18 panelled doors. Main mast newel staircase with later early Cl9 foliate and decorative fret panelling to the wall and entered through a C18 reeded archway. Roof with several curved wind braces and evidence of former smoke hole. Lintel of former window lighting the hall said to be incorporated in the wall of the garden front above the inserted floor. The Manor was given to Bagnall-Wild by Elizabeth I. White's Directory of Nottinghamshire.

Listing NGR: SK5738626402

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