Description

PARISH OF UNSTONE CHESTERFIELD ROAD
SK 37 NE
6/182
Unstone Manor House
(formerly listed as
25.10.51
Manor Hall Farmhouse)
II*
Manor House. 1630 with C18 alterations. Coursed squared rubble
coal measures sandstone rising from a shallow chamfered plinth,
with ashlar dressings, quoins, coped gables with moulded
kneelers, intermediate and end ashlar ridge stacks, with
diagonally set chimneys with moulded caps. Stone slated roofs,
some with stone slated valleys. L-plan house. West elevation.
Two storeys, six bays, with two bay advanced wing to the north
of the main doorway situated in the angle of the two ranges.
Doorway with quoined surround, alternate quoins advanced, in the
Gibbsian manner. Massive lintel with carved keyblock, above
which is a carved inscribed plaque, the inscription weathered so
as to be illegible. The hoodmould to the door steps up over the
plaque. To the south of the door a 4-light chamfer mullioned
window and at first floor level a single light, a 2-light and a
4-light window, and to the attic a broad gabled dormer with a
blocked 3-light window, all openings being chamfer mullioned,
beneath hoodmoulds with label stops. Fixed lights and metal
casement windows with leaded lights. Advanced two bay wing,
with 2 and 3-light mullioned and transomed C17 openings to the
ground floor, that to the south bay blocked, and with 2, 3 and
4-light openings to the first floor. A continuous hoodmould
with stops returns to main range to link with mouldings to
entrance bay. North corner of wing slightly advanced, and
quoined on both faces. Rear elevation. Three gabled dormers
each with 3-light mullioned windows. Below the centre and south
gables, a continuous plain drip which returns onto the south
gabel end. Two outer bays each with stacked 3-light chamfer
mullioned windows, together with two single light openings to
the first floor. The centre bay has a 4-light first floor
window above the 4-light transomed window to the hall bay. This
window, and that to the north end, have hoodmoulds with stops.
The doorway to the south end has a quoined surround, and is
flanked by a single light window to the south, and a 3-light
chamfer mullioned window to the north, all beneath a continuous
dripmould. Interior. Ornamental geometric patterned flagstones
to floor of hall, onto a raised dais within the advanced wing,
which has re-used C17 square oak panelling. C18 stair with
wreathed handrail, but incorporating an earlier moulded timber
used as a newel post. Massive arched hearth to south bay, and
the remains of two upper cruck trusses incorporated in a
remodelled roof structure. The house plan is illustrated in
Nathaniel Lloyd's 'A History of the English House'.

Listing NGR: SK3694777380

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546369

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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