Building record 0281401002 - ADDINGTON OLD MANOR HOUSE

Dimensions - Length 16m, Width 8m.
Plan Form - RECTANGULAR
TRADITIONALLY BUILT BY WINDSOR FAMILY (B1).
REBUILT 1857 TO HARDWICK'S DESIGNS (B2).
OLD MANOR HOUSE OF 2 STOREYS & CELLAR. BRICK WALLS, STONE DRESSINGS. BUILT C17, PART OF A LARGE HOUSE FORMERLY EXTENDING S. MUCH OF ORIGINAL HOUSE PULLED DOWN 1859-60 & REDUCED TO 2 STOREYS (B3,B5).
AT NGR (B11).
Grade II. Formerly Addington House, now 4 flats. Late C17 much altered 1859-60 and C20. Red brick with stone quoins, plinth moulding, first floor band course, cornice and architrave windows with central keyblocks. Hipped slate roofs, brick chimneys with square shafts set diagonally. Two storeys. S. front has three bays with barred sash windows and central panelled door with rectangular fanlight in rendered architrave surround with cornice on scroll brackets over. W. Side has six bays, that to left set back, bays 2 and 3 slightly projecting. Right-hand bays are irregular and have dentilled brick eaves. Six panelled door with rectangular fanlight and flat cornice hood on elaborately carved scroll brackets in fourth bay has flanking tall narrow casements. Additional bay of one storey to right has pierced parapet, band course, similar sash window and C20 glazed door. Garage to far right with attic dormer above. Included for group value (B10).
During WW2 Addington House was used as a safe house for four families of members of the Czechoslovac Military Intelligence (B15).



The Old Manor House, N of the church, is of two storeys, with a cellar. The walls are of brick with stone dressings; the roofs are covered with slate. It was built apparently in the 17th century, and inpart of a large house, which formerly extended towards the S; much of the original building was pulled down in 1859-60; the S end of the present house, then of three storeys, was reduced to two storeys, and the upper storey was added to the middle part, then of one storey. The domestic offices at the N end, formerly farm buildings, are of a later date than the rest of the house. The plan is rectangular, with small projections on the NW and SW. A drawing preserved at the new Manor House shows the original E front with four gables. The S elevation is now the front of the house; the wall has been re-faced with modern brick and has stone quoins; the five windows and the doorway are original and of stone. The W elevation has been partly re-faced with modern brick, and has stone quoins; at the S end, on the ground floor, is a large bay window. The N elevation has two gables. The E elevation has, at the S end, original stone quoins and windows with keystones. Interior:- The walls of the older part of the house are lined with oak panelling, much of it being of the 17th century. Several chimney pieces are made up of old oak panelling; that in the dining room is composed of an bedstead of mid 17th-century date. The new Manor House contains the following fittings, said to come from the old house:- some panelling, the hand-rails of the staircase, and a chimney piece made up with panelling and Ionic shafts, all of the 17th century, and in the ceiling of the hall, some early 16th-century roundels carved with heads. A barn, NW of the house, is probably of a late 16th-century date, and was possibly formerly a tithe-barn. The walls are of brick, pierce with two rows of narrow loop lights each about 3 inches wide, and having regular splayed inner jambs. The roof is tiled. The main block is rectangular, and consists of five bays each about 12 feet long; in the middle of each side is a projecting bay, making the plan cruciform; that on the E side is gabled and has a large doorway; on the W side the main roof is continued down under the projection. Interior:- At each end of the roof of the main block is a truss with cambered tie-beams, curved and ornamental struts and braced collar-beams; the other trusses have no tie-beams. The stables, NE of the house, consist of a rectangular building, dated 1642, with two wings of later date at the back. The original
block is of two storeys, built of brick, with modern roughcast in front The roofs are tiled, and there was formerly a clock tower. The building is divided by an archway, which has been rebuilt, but over it is a stone panel bearing the date 1642. In the harness room there aresome moulded ceiling beams and a carved post. Condition-Good (B3).

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