Description

LUDDINGTON

SP15SE VILLAGE STREET
1931-1/4/65 (North side)
02/08/72 Luddington Manor
(Formerly Listed as:
VILLAGE STREET
The Manor House)

GV II

Manor house. C16 or C17 with C19 front range. Timber-frame
rear range with brick infill and some rubble; brick front
range with ashlar dressings; tile roof with brick end stacks.
Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; symmetrical 3-window range.
Plat bands over ground and first floors, and top modillioned
brick cornice. Entrance has brick flat arch and overlight to
half-glazed door with etched glass panels. Ground floor has
ashlar bay windows with sills and cornices; first floor has
windows with sills and wedge lintels, all with 1/1 plate-glass
horned sashes, signs of blocked window to left of centre.
Gabled roof. Attic has 3 gabled dormers, coped with kneelers,
stop-chamfered reveals and 2-light casements. External stacks,
that to left cruciform. Lower, single-window, painted brick
extension to left has recessed rounded angle, C19 French
window and tall window with 2-light casement to first floor;
single-storey lean-to outshut to right return.
Left return has stone gable end with exposed timber-framed
gable head and lower wing with brick over coursed rubble;
right return has timber-framed gable to rear range.
Rear has mid C19 gabled wing with top frieze and gablet to
each side; sashed first-floor windows.
INTERIOR: exposed timber-framing and broadly chamfered spine
beams to rear range; some doorways with heavy pegged frames.
Rising land to the rear is terraced, possibly for medieval or
earlier vineyards.

Listing NGR: SP1674252650

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662776

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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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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)