Building record 0477901000 - LEDBURN MANOR HOUSE

Summary

Manor house with fifteenth century origins, small sixteenth century timber-framed wing survives, most of house is seventeenth to eighteenth century with a twentieth century extension

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1117867: LEDBURN MANOR HOUSE
  • Planning Notification Area: Late Medieval timber framed buildings at Ledburn Manor House, Mentmore

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Type and Period (2)

  • MANOR HOUSE (15th Century to Modern - 1400 AD to 1999 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (16th Century - 1500 AD to 1599 AD)

Description

Dimensions - Length 27m, Width 16m.
Plan Form - Subrectangular.
House originally built by 1 of Enderby family in late C15; now mainly C17/C18 (B1).
Grade II. House. Main range to front is mid C18, with small early C16 wing, extended C17-C18, to rear, and C20 extensions to west. C18 front is of vitreous header brick with red brick strips flanking windows, moulded brick plinth, stone quoins, narrow moulded stone cornice and brick parapet. Openings have gauged brick heads with stone triglyph keyblocks. Old tile roof, stone coped gables, brick chimneys with stone cornices to gables and right of centre. 2 storeys and attic, 5 bays, the 3 centre bays grouped more closely. 3-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars and architrave frames, probably once longer, now with later brick panels below. 2 left bays have dormers with paired wooden casements. Central C20 half- glazed door with 3-pane rectangular fanlight. C20 extension to left is of one storey with 3 bays of sash windows. Right gable has 2 later sashes with segmental heads. Shorter parallel range to rear is of chequer brick with first floor band course and has 2 leaded cross casements with gauged brick heads to each floor, the upper ones with cambered heads. Attic has single barred wooden casement. Door to left is 6-panelled, top-lit, in panelled reveals with wooden doorcase of Doric pilasters, triglyph entablature and modillioned pediment, and has transomed leaded light above. Interior: 2 early C16 bays have curved wind-braces in roof and central truss with chamfered arched braces to tie beam and heavy queen struts above; front range has re-set early C17 moulded stone fireplace with 4-centred arch in ground floor room to left. RCHM II p. 196-7 Mon.3 (B2-3).
At NGR (B4).

Sources (4)

  • <1>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. pp397,399-400.
  • <2>SBC20467 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1913. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 2. pp196-197.
  • <3>SBC19041 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p64.
  • <4>XYSBC10476 Map: OS 1978 1:2500 MAP. [Mapped feature: #3866 ]

Location

Grid reference SP 90350 21990 (point)
Civil Parish MENTMORE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC13593)

Record last edited

Nov 6 2024 6:08PM

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