Description

In the entry for

SK 72 SW GRIMSTON CHURCH LANE
Saxelby
5/272 Saxelby Manor House
14.7.53 (formerly listed as
Manor Farm House)

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The address shall be amended to read

SK 72 SW GRIMSTON CHURCH LANE
(south side)
Saxelby
5/272 Saxelby Manor House (no 2)
14.7.53 (formerly listed as Manor Farm
House)

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GRIMSTON CHURCH LANE
Saxelby
SK 72 SW Saxelby Manor House
5/272 (formerly listed as Manor
14.7.53 Farm House)

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Manor house, now farmhouse. Early-mid C16 with late C16/early C17 additions
and alterations, altered and extended C20. 3-unit lobby entry plan.
Timber framed, rendered, porch and stair turret of coursed squared
ironstone, bay window of brick with limestone dressings, Swithland slate
roof, ironstone lateral stack, cruciform brick ridge stack. 2-storey, 4-
window range. 2-storey, gabled porch to right of centre with Tudor-arched
stone doorway and 3-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion window above with
hood mould. Large canted bay window of c1900 to right of porch. 2-light
casement windows to ground floor left of porch with wavy ornamental rendered
surround, rendered sills and hood moulds. 3-light casements to 1st floor
with similar surrounds. Late C16/early C17 2-storey canted bay window to
right end elevation with ovolo-moulded limestone mullion windows of 3 lights
to front, 2 lights to sides, that to left side converted to door C20, that
to ground floor front blocked; hipped slate roof. Frame is exposed to left
end wall against which a massive ironstone stack has been built; brick
infill. Frames appears to have large square panels. Large stone stair
turret projects to rear behind porch. 2-storey extension of c1900 to rear
right. Interior: Open-well staircase with openwork 4-sided pointed
finials and pedants and vertically symmetrical turned balusters. Stairs
runs from Cellar to attic. 3-bay roof has clasped principals to collar
trusses and wind-braced purlins. Ogee stop-chamfered spine beams. Building
of England Leics 1984 p368.

Listing NGR: SK7009120858

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17541778

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)