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SK 5236 NE
6/31

BEESTON AND STAPLEFORD
MIDDLE STREET (south side)
Nos. 2 and 2a (The Manor House), boundary wall and wash house

18.10.49

II
House. Early C17. Rebuilt c.1675. East wing early C18. Refenestrated early C19 and additions mid and late C19. Brick, partly rendered and colourwashed, with C20 plain tile roof. Chamfered dressed stone plinth, coped gables, that to south shaped. East front has diaper work. Two side wall, single gable and single grouped ridge stacks with four diagonal shafts. Two storeys plus garrets, four bays. Baffle entry, L-plan. Windows are mainly Gothick casements.

East front has remains of symmetrical round headed openings. Blocked central doorway flanked to left by two casements and to right by door with Gothick overlight. Above, small central casement flanked by single larger casements. To left, beyond boundary wall, mid C19 flat-roofed addition forming No. 2A. Door to left and plain casement to right. Above, central casement. All with segmental heads. Return angle to south has three casements on each floor, mostly with rubbed brick heads. Above again, mid C19 gabled dormer with casement. Double gabled street front has to right, first and second floor bands forming semi-circular and triangular window heads. Off-centre casement flanked to left by two and to right by single blocked openings. Above, four blocked openings. Above again, blocked oval central opening with adjoining casement. Above again, each gable has a casement, that to left plain.

West front has to left late C20 single storey addition, three bays. To right, mid C19 wing and beyond mid C19 lean-to and flat roofed additions. Off-centre canted hipped porch has two casements. Above, three Gothick and single plain casements. Otherwise irregular C19 and C20 fenestration.

Principal rooms have chamfered span beams and fireplace bressummers. Re-used span beam in east wing. Early C18 three storey dogleg stair with landings. Square newels, vase and stem balusters, moulded handrail, intersecting strings. Secondary winder stair with octagonal newel. West wing has double purlin roof with collars. South wing has principal rafter roof. Several late C17 plank and panelled doors, two with chamfered surrounds with ogee stops. Several C18 plank and panelled doors. Two early C19 hob grates with plain ashlar surrounds. Late C18 moulded wood fire surround.

Outside, to east, boundary wall with doorway with segmental head. Adjoining early C19 wash-house with plain tile roof and Gothick opening in south gable. Triangular louvred opening in opposite gable.

Ref: Barley, M. W. and Wallwork, S. C. Transactions of the Thoroton Society, Vol.
LXXXVI, 1982. pp.89-96.

Listing NGR: SK5289036615

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)