Building record 2600/0/41 - Manor House, Chapel Street

A manor house that was built in 1677 and extended during the 19th and mid 20th centuries is situated on the eastern side of Chapel Street. The building is constructed of regular coursed limestone and ashlar with double pitch tiled roofs with ridge chimney stacks and a gabled wing breaking forward at each end, forming an H plan. The west facing facade has a symmetrical front with a stone mullion window to each floor of the wings and a four window range between. The entrance door is central with an oval window above with two hipped dormer windows in the centre of the roof slope. A lozenge shaped datestone in the left gable is inscribed: WA/1677 and there is a three light stone mullion window in the right return.

Manor house. Datestone WA/1677, extended C19 and mid C20. Regular coursed limestone with ashlar facade and C20 plain tile roof. Originally shallow H-shape plan. 2 storeys with attic. Main front is a 5-window range. Gabled end bays break forward slightly. Central 6-panel, part-glazed, door has moulded and eared architrave with a central panel below a moulded cornice. Oval, first floor, window, above door, has moulded surround. Other ground and first floor windows are 2-light stone mullion windows with transoms and cyma-moulded architrave with fascias. Similar, 2-light, attic windows, in each gable. 2 hipped roof dormers with casement windows. Chamfered plinth and raised band between floors. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers. Ashlar ridge stacks have moulded cornices; the left stack is rendered. Lozenge shape datestone in left gable, similar blank panel in right gable. Elevation to right has a 3-light stone mullion window to first floor, with a C20 doorway below, which has a re-used oulded stone surround. Elevation to left has casement windows with wood lintels. Rear elevation has central, gabled, stair turret and C19 single-storey extensions flanking. Interior: C17 staircase, with half landing, has turned balustrade and panelled newels with ball finials. The entrance hall and drawing room, to right, have C17 bolection moulded panelling with matching wooden fireplace surrounds. The dining room and the kitchen, to the left of the entrance hall, both have remains of open f replaces. Stop-chamfered spine beams. Room to first floor right has fireplace with a bolection moulded and eared surround, short pilasters and bolection moulded panel to the overmantle. Room to first floor left of centre has a C17 fireplace with moulded stone surround and sunk panels. C17 and C18 panelled doors. The back staircase to the far left hand corner probably occupies the position of the original back staircase which only gave access to the first floor room to the far left and the attic . (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p163)

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<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 15/147 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G10: District of Listing: East Northamptonshire. 23-May-1967. (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> 1975-85, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, (unchecked) (Series). SNN100542.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Warmington (Photographs). SNN114089.

<5> Historic England, Undated, MANOR HOUSE, WARMINGTON, BF084487 (Archive). SNN114356.

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