Description

12/60 WEREHAM THE GREEN
The Manor House
(Previously listed as
9.7.51 Wereham Manor)


The entry shall be amended to read:

12/60 WEREHAM THE GREEN
The Manor House
GV

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TF 6801 WEREHAM THE GREEN

12/60
The Manor House (previously listed
9.7.51 as Wereham Manor)
GV II

House, now residential home for the elderly. Dated 1722 and 1729, the former
referring to the flint and carstone construction, the latter to the brick
refacing of facade. Roofs of black glazed pantiles. 2 storeys and dormer
attic. Main front of 2 elements, that to right of 4 bays : sash windows with
glazing bars behind rendered architraves with keystones and aprons. Moulded
string course below fielded parapet. 3 bay block set back to left: 2 sashes
to ground and 3 to first floor as before, to right panelled door within fluted
case. Corners of both elements with clasping brick pilaster strips. Single
bay return between the 2 blocks with one sash each floor as before and date-
stone 1729 in parapet. Parapet continuous through entire facade. Gabled
roofs, hipped to accommodate set-back bay. 3 flat-headed dormers in right
block, 2 in left block, all with casements with glazing bars. Ridge stack
left of centre and at internal north gable. Rear elevation of asymmetrical
disposition and with scattered fenestration of C18 sashes with glazing bars
and segmental heads, all within flush timber frames. Brick quoins and window
surrounds. Gabled roof. To right 2 storey gabled cross wings. 2 C18 sash
windows with glazing bars and segmental heads to ground floor and 2 flat-headed
C18 sashes to first floor. Gable heads bifurcate above, both with tumbling,
that to right with datestone 1722.

Listing NGR: TF6801101627

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26626346

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Recommended Books

• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)