Building record 0053101000 - GREAT HUNDRIDGE MANOR

Summary

Late seventeenth century manor house at Great Hundridge, built in 1696 with architect-designed extension of 1933 and another 1950s extension.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II*) 1162783: GREAT HUNDRIDGE MANOR

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Type and Period (1)

  • MANOR HOUSE (Built 1696, 17th Century to Modern - 1600 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Present house built 1696, 2 storeys, of half-H shape (B6).
Now farm house. Must have been medieval manor house on same site, since chapel here from C12 (B1,B4-5).
Grade II+. House. Late C17 extended C20. Flint rubble plinth, chequer brickwork, hipped old tile roof with wood modillion cornice, brick chimneys. 2 gabled dormers to each side slope. 2-storeys. Front of seven casement windows all with gauged brick flat arches and wood mullions and transomes. 2-light except for 1-light windows either side of door and either side of central first floor window; leaded glazing. Modern door with rectangular fanlight, pulvinated frieze and pediment hood on shaped brackets. First floor brick band with cyma reverse moulding. Rear elevation: 3 wide bays, the 2 outer ones projecting slightly with hipped old tile roof, central gabled dormer, 3 mullion-and-transome first floor windows with leaded glazing, Modern halfglazed doors with pediment over and 3-light-casement either side. Rear wings: On north east 1933 by Clough Williams-Ellis, neo-Georgian, brick, clay tile roof, 2-storeys, sash windows. On south east, linking house with Chapel [CAS 0053102000] 1950's, red brick, hipped clay tile roof with wood cornice, mullion-and-transome windows. Interior: (of original house) Fine late C17 bolection moulded panelling in both front first floor rooms. Similar panelling in ground floor left hand room which also has original fireplace flanked by fluted giant pilasters. Staircase with twisted balusters and panelled dado, three doorcases to landing with panelling, cornices and keyblocks. RCHM I p 96 MON 24 (B7).

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC1326 Unpublished document: BCM CAS RECORD CARD 00531.
  • <4>SBC20460 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1905. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume I. Volume 1. p286.
  • <5>SBC15697 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 3 PP206, 212, 217.
  • <6>SBC12561 Bibliographic reference: RCHM 1 PP96-97.
  • <7>SBC3679 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1983. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST. p11.

Location

Grid reference SP 93236 01628 (point)
Civil Parish CHARTRIDGE, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

May 30 2022 2:05PM

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