Description

SHIPSTON ON STOUR SHEEP STREET
SP2540 (North side)
14/124 Manor House and The Manor, and
02/09/52 attached wall, coach house and
gatepiers
(Formerly listed as Nos.32 and
34 (Manor House) including
walls and gate posts in
Telegraph Street))

GV II

House. Early/mid C18, Ironstone ashlar with rusticated quoins, moulded eaves
cornice and stone coped gables. Mansard roof of old slates with brick ridge and
end stacks. 2 storeys plus attic; 6-window range, the central 2-window range
projecting forward with pediment over. L-shaped plan. To left a C20 door with
panelled surround and moulded head. Moulded keystone and hood over. To right of
projecting range a large 4-panelled door with pilaster surround and bracketted
hood. To left of door, to left of projection, and to 2 openings to right of
projection a C19 two-pane sash. Moulded keystone with moulded hood and moulded
sills. 6 first floor openings have 12-pane sashes with moulded sills and
keystones with moulded hoods. To centre of pediment a 6-pane window with Tudor
arched head. Four C20 dormers. To left a stone castellated wall, probably C19
with large double doors to centre and single door to right. Both doors have
segmental heads with moulded keystones and buttresses. To rear of building a
large 2-storey rendered range. Attached to rear left a late C18 and early C19
wall approximately 2.5 metres high and extending north for approximately 50
metres. Brick and squared, coursed lias with brick buttresses. Stone coped. At
right angle of wall a late C18 coach house of brick; in Flemish bond with nogged
eaves cornice and stone coped gables. C20 tile roof. To left, double plank doors
with original hinges in segmental arched head with stone keyblock. Wall extends
approximately 17 metres to east and has two C18 rusticated stone gatepiers with
moulded cornices, linked by a plank door. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP2575140615

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26480866

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)