Description

REDDITCH B DROITWICH ROAD (north side)
SP 0061 - 0161
9/60 The Minor (formerly listed
as No 24 The Manor House)
10.4.54

GV II*

House. Late C16, remodelled c1730 with mid-C19 alterations and additions.
Brick with ashlar dressings and partly hipped plain tiled roofs with parapets
to rear gables and brick ridge stacks. Two storeys, cellar and attic with
dormers; moulded plinth band, string above window heads of-both main storeys
of front elevation and two-course brick bands similarly situated in side
elevations; bracketed timber eaves cornice. Five bays with rusticated end
quoins; windows have gauged flat heads with plain keyblocks and moulded
stone sills; all windows are 4-pane sashes, three hipped dormers with 6-
pane windows; central entrance has a projecting open-pediment, entablature
and engaged Doric columns, within is a 4-panelled door and traceried fanlight.
Interior: large moulded ceiling beams to rear of house; room to front right
and rear left have large and elaborately detailed Jacobean chimneypieces;
central hall retains its C18 dog-leg staircase with moulded handrail and
turned balusters; room to front left retains its C18 panelling including
panelled round-headed niche to right of fireplace. C19 domestic wing added
to rear right. The date "1730". is written on a rainwater hopper head at the
rear of the building. The house originally belonged to the Throckmorton
family.

Listing NGR: SP0066261366

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548053

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)