Description

SK 21 NE PARISH OF OVERSEAL MOIRA ROAD 3/41 (North Side) Overseal Manor School and Attached Outbuildings II

House and attached outbuildings, now school. c1830 with minor early C20 alterations, and late C19 and c1970 additions. Pebbledashed rubble with stone dressings, plinth and first floor band. Hipped slate roof with wide overhanging eaves and pebbledashed ridge stacks with stone cornices. Two storeys and three bays with an irregular plan. Main front has a two storey bow to west side with a shallow leaded domed roof and a full height glazing bar sash to ground floor. To east there is a semi-circular headed doorcase with a Tuscan columned, broken pedimented porch over and a panelled door below traceried fanlight. To either side there are narrow inserted glazing bar sashes. Beyond to east and. slightly recessed there is a late C19 addition which has glazing bar sashes above and below. Above to west there are two more sashes, that over the door with a semi-circular wavy ironwork balcony to front and that to west bowed. West front also has glazing bar sashes. Interior has an elegant stick baluster staircase with wreathed handrail, and original semi-circular headed niches in two ground floor rooms. Attached to west is a c1970 addition of no special interest and attached to north are the outbuildings which are of painted red brick with hipped plain tiled roofs. North range has an advanced central gabled bay with full height semi- circular headed blind recess in which is a central segment headed doorcase flanked by small paned 2-light segment headed windows with a similar central window above. Similar arrangement of openings to east side and a segment headed doorcase with double doors to west plus 2-light small paned window above.

Listing NGR: SK2977715322

External Links

• Wikidata Q26597598

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990