Building record 0175202000 - HARLEYFORD MANOR
Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- Conservation Area: Harleyford and Wittington Conservation Area
- Listed Building (I) 1311225: HARLEYFORD MANOR
Map
Type and Period (1)
- COUNTRY HOUSE (Built 1755, 18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)
Description
Plan Form - Double pile.
Built 1755 on site of old manor house (01:000) by Sir Robert Taylor for Sir William Clayton (B2-5).
Despite reports of demolition (B6), house is in fact being retored (B5,B7).
Account & view of 1760 (B8).
Grade I. Villa. Dated WCM 1755 on rainwater heads. Undergoing thorough structural overhaul and restoration 1985. By Sir Robert Taylor for Sir William Clayton. Red brick with stone band courses. Modillion cornice to be replaced in fibreglass. Brick parapet with stone coping and ball finials, not all in situ 1985. Hipped slate roof, brick chimneys. Compact double pile plan with full-height projecting bays, that to S. semi- elliptical, that to E. canted, the N. rectangular and pedimented. Basement, lower ground floor, piano nobile, bedroom floor and attic. W. front of 4 bays; other fronts with single bays flanking 3-bay projections. Window openings with gauged heads, formerly with sash windows, due to have replacement sashes with octagonal glazing as in original design. Flat-roofed attic dormers. Lower ground floor has central entrances to N. and S., with vermiculated bonded stone surrounds. N. front also has upper ground floor entry approached by double return flights of stone steps with wrought iron railings. Upper ground floor takes form of 3-bay arcaded loggia with stone impost band and gauged brick arches. Central arch has double half-glazed doors and ornamental iron fanlight; flanking arches have C19 glazing and stone balustrades. Bullseye window in pediment. Canted bay on E. front raised C19, with stone balustraded parapet. S. front has full-height openings to upper ground floor of projecting bay, with simple wrought iron railings to balcony. Interior: entrance loggia with groin vaults on scroll brackets, plaster foliage bosses, and plaster lunettes with low reliefs of mythological figures. 3-bay inner vestibule with central dome and octagonal coffing to barrel vaults and terminal apses. Smaller vestibule of 3 domed bays with arched niches at entrance to former dining room. C19 staircase to lower ground floor, with reeded metal balusters. Main staircase with Chinese-style wooden lattice balustrades, shaped tread ends and soffit, and later Greek fret string. Panelled vault over stairs with elaborate Rococo scrolls linking ribs to cornice. Arcaded upper landing with groin vaults. Doors have octagonal wooden panels, most to be replaced, and entrance doors have reveals with similar flush panels. C19 painted inscriptions. Library retains sequence of large and small arched recesses, plaster dado, string and cornice, and altered fireplace with Rococo plaster overmantel. Other interior decoration removed 1955 for restoration, including elaborate plaster drops formerly in Drawing room on S. front. These drops illustrate themes of music, painting, hunting and gardening. It may be necessary to replace the originals with copies from moulds. (Country Life 1910 June 4th p. 810-819, 1967 July 6th p. 17-21)(B5).
Buildings report held at NMR (B12).
Conservation Area designated in 1992 (B13).
Sources (8)
- <2>SBC7300 Bibliographic reference: LANGLEY T 1797 HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF HUNDRED OF DESBOROUGH PP95-101.
- <3>SBC6907 Article in serial: Rev W Hastings Kelke. 1865. 'DESECRATED CHURCHES IN BUCKS: DEANERY OF WYCOMBE', IN RECS OF BUCKS 3 PP121-129. Vol 3, part 4. pp121-122.
- <4>SBC11706 Bibliographic reference: Nikolaus Pevsner. 1960. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. p157; Plate 1b.
- <5>SBC4242 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1987. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST; BUCKS: WYCOMBE DISTRICT: PARISHES OF CHEPPING WYCOMBE &C. p12.
- <6>SBC13244 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 16 1956 P114.
- <7>SBC62 Bibliographic reference: A R PIKE JAN 1980 FIELD VISIT.
- <8>SBC6118 Bibliographic reference: HARRIS J 1979 THE ARTIST & THE COUNTRY HOUSE: A HISTORY OF COUNTRY HOUSE AND GARDEN VIEW PAINTING P2.
- <13>SBC23253 Map: Wycombe District Council. 1992?. Harleyford and Wittington Conservation Area. 1:10,000.
Location
Grid reference | SU 82680 84490 (point) |
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Civil Parish | GREAT MARLOW, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire |
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Record last edited
Oct 27 2024 8:24PM