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HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE

HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE, HILLBOROUGH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1382782
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE, HILLBOROUGH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1382782
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE, HILLBOROUGH

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE, HILLBOROUGH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Temple Grafton
National Grid Reference:: SP 12619 52078

Details

TEMPLE GRAFTON

SP15SW HILLBOROUGH 1931-1/3/103 Hillborough Manor House 06/02/52 (Formerly Listed as: HILLBOROUGH Hillborough Manor)

GV II*

Mansion. c1600 including some early C16 work, with C18 extension to north and C20 restoration. Dressed blue lias stone; narrow coursed rubble to rear with sections of timber-framing with plaster infill and painted brick; renewed tile roof with stone lateral stacks with brick shafts, and brick ridge stacks. L-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic and 2-storey rear wing. West elevation: 4-window range with 3-storey cross wing to left end; French window to left of lateral stack and 2 windows of 2 wooden-chamfered mullioned lights; first floor has 2-light windows to left of stack, 8/8 horned sash and 2-light window to right. Left wing has 4-light wooden-chamfered mullioned window to each floor; re-entrant stack has diagonal brick shafts and lateral stack has star-plan brick shafts. Left return has gable end with basement openings with chamfered wooden frames and single and 3-light windows to ground and first floors, and 4-light window to attic; wing to left has section of close-studded timber-framing to first floor right half over narrow rubble courses, extension to left has alternate wide courses of rubble; entrance with plank door and 5-light window to ground floor, 3- and 5-light windows to first floor; extension to left has 2 large and one small windows to ground floor with brick segmental heads over 3-light small-paned casements, 2 first-floor windows with C20 small-paned casements. Right return has ashlar 3-light double-chamfered mullioned window to attic. Rear has re-entrant gabled stair wing which has wooden-chamfered mullioned single-light and 3-light window; similar 6-light transomed window to left and Tudor-headed entrance with blank shield above to left end. Wing has brick section to first floor corresponding to timber-framed section; 2 entrances, one with C20 stable door and one to right end with plank door; windows have small-paned casements, first floor has C20 oriel and one old casement, with iron opening casement. Gabled roofs. INTERIOR: richly moulded c1600 ceiling beams to room in wing, other rooms have heavy chamfered beams; plank doors with strap hinges; north-west room has re-set C17 panelling; timber-framed partition walls, one with ogee-headed former hatch; heavy C16 stair to turret; fireplaces with bressumers. A good example of a C16 manor house forming group with dovecote (qv) and converted farm buildings. Tradition, probably based on mistake in church register, asserts that a woman known as `Shakespeare's other Anne' was buried here in the extinct churchyard (whereabouts unknown). (Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 94-100; Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 432-3).

Listing NGR: SP1261952078

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 483168
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 432-433
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 94-100

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.