Description

BADSEY CP HIGH STREET (west side) SP 0643 - SP 0743

14/11 The Manor House (Nos 4 & 6)

30.7.52

GV II*

House. Late C16, restored mid-C20. Timber-frame with rendered infill on rubble ground floor with quoins and hipped tile roof. U-plan, front range formerly hall and carriage entry through it; south wing of six bays, north wing of two bays. Stack on side wall of north wing has three diamond brick shafts, other stack to junction of south wing and front range. Two storeys, coved cornice, three windows: oriels with lean-to stone tile roofs. Ground floor with four windows, that to left of five lights with stone mullions. Recessed portion to centre indicates carriage entry, now with C20 entrance to No 6. Entrance to No 4 to right. Framing: three square panels high with projecting moulded bressummer to first floor, with elaborate herring- bone bracing in panels. Interior: moulded stone fireplaces to main stacks. On the site of The Seyne House, a property of Evesham Abbey. Restored in 1940s by a group of local individuals, when the building had become very dilapidated. (BoE, p 74; Bond, C J: "The Estates of Evesham Abbey: a preliminary survey of their medieval topography", Vale of Evesham Historical Society Research Papers, Vol 4, 1973, p 9).

Listing NGR: SP0697743397

External Links

• Wikidata Q17548496

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)