Manor House, Stoke Poges
Description: Manor House
Grade: I
Date Listed: 23 September 1955
English Heritage Building ID: 44232
OS Grid Reference: SU9753782865
OS Grid Coordinates: 497537, 182865
Latitude/Longitude: 51.5363, -0.5951
Location: Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire SL2 4PG
Locality: Stoke Poges
Local Authority: South Bucks
County: Buckinghamshire
Country: England
Postcode: SL2 4PG
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Listing Text
SU 98 SE STOKE POGES STOKE PARK
(park Road)
8/637
Manor House
(formerly listed as
23.9.55 Stoke Manor)
- I
Circa 1550 altered. Red brick; old tile roof; prominent chimney stacks
in groups of 3 or 4 octagonal cut brick shafts. Two storeys and attic.
Rear elevation of 3 bays with pilasters at corners and stringcourse at lst-
floor level. Window range of 3 sashes framed in raised brickwork and with
glazing bars. Three dormers with hipped tiled roofs. Garden elevation
with on left hand 2 gables. First floor and in gables, paired windows in
stone surrounds with mullions and leaded lights. Ground floor with 3-light
casements. On right hand, 2-storey hall with a bay window, projecting stepped
chimney stack and large leaded casement window. Interior: hall with elaborate
fireplace; also, a late C18 marble fireplace with coupled columns in another
room. History: built for Francis Earl of Huntingdon, bought 1599 and inhabited
by Chief Justice Coke, (who entertained Elizabeth I here in 1601) until
1634; later home of Lady Cobham, widow of lst Viscount and friend of Gray.
Gray's 'Long Story' describes the house. VCH III, p 302; CL I, p 724.
Listing NGR: SU9753782865
Source: English Heritage
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