Building record 1127/1/1 - Rose Manor

House constructed in 1686

{1} Manor House. Datestone 1686 in doorcase. Lias ashlar with slate roof. Double depth plan. 2-storey, 5-window range symmetrical with central glazed door in moulded stone, doorcase has panelled pilasters, pulvinated frieze with leaf decoration and pediment above. Casements have wood mullions with original glass. Stone heads with keystones. Moulded stone cornices and ashlar gable parapets and kneelers. Central brick stacks. String course between ground and first floor. Rear similar with C19 extension. Interior: Ground floor left room: large C17 open fire with moulded stone surround. Fielded panelling with moulded cornice and beams. Similar panelling and beam in right room.

{3} Rose Manor, at the north east end of the village. 1686. Of ironstone. A very handsome five-bay front of two storeys. Two-light, upright, mullioned wooden windows, Doorway broad, with a pediment. In the frieze below it the date and horizontal laurel leaves left and right.

{4} Undated photo;

{5} Reference is made to Guilsborough Parsonage, otherwise called the Manor House of Nortoft

(?) Post medieval sources mention a manor

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 3/167 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G01 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.244 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Guilsborough (Photographs). SNN111759.

<5> RENTON E., 1929, Records of Guilsborough: Nortoft & Hollowell, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN59631.

Record last edited

Sep 29 2022 12:19PM