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Minley Manor was built in the 1860s in the style of a French Chateau for a rich businessman. It was extended in the 1880s.
Since the 1930s, Minley Manor has been owned by the army and is now used as an officers' mess. As a result it's not accessible to the public and I had to use the zoom.
It is rumoured that it will soon be up for sale?!
A visit to the National Trust property of Snowshill Manor in the Cotswolds / Gloucestershire.
Snowshill Manor is a National Trust property located in the village of Snowshill, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. It is a sixteenth century country house, best known for its twentieth century owner, Charles Paget Wade, an eccentric man who amassed an enormous collection of objects that interested him. He gave the property to the National Trust in 1951, and his collection is still housed there.
The property is located in Snowshill. It is a typical Cotswold manor house, made from local stone; the main part of the house dates from the 16th century. It is a Grade II* listed building, having been so designated since 4 July 1960. Also listed are the brewhouse, the dovecote, some of the garden buildings, the wall and gate-piers, and the group of four Manor Cottages.
Snowshill Manor was given to Winchcombe Abbey in 821 by King Coenwulf of Mercia. Two hundred and sixty four years later, the village and Manor were listed in the Domesday Book (1085) as Snawesille, property of the Abbey of Saint Mary of Winchcombe. The Manor remained the property of the Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 when it was confiscated by King Henry VIII, who included the Manor in his dowry to his last queen, Catherine Parr, in 1543.
The earliest surviving part of the Manor, the rooms named and now known as Dragon, Nadir, Ann's, Music and Seraphim by Charles Paget Wade, was built around 1550 and it is probable that this section of the Manor was joined to a contemporaneous building to the south, which was later demolished. In the 1600s the Manor was again extended southwards and attic rooms added. In the early part of the 18th century the house was owned by one William Sambach, who added extra rooms on the south-west corner in about 1720. He also added a new main door in the south front, placing the Sambach coat of arms in the pediment above it, which is now the main entrance to the house. After several further changes of owner, John Small of Clapham took over the property, being the first of a series of absentee landlords: for the next 150 years the house was occupied by tenant farmers, until its purchase in 1919 by Charles Paget Wade.
Wade was an architect, artist-craftsman, collector, poet and heir to the family fortune. He restored the property, living in the small cottage in the garden and using the Manor house as a home for his collection of objects. By the time of his death he had amassed over 22,000 objects. He gave the property and the contents of this collection to the National Trust in 1951.
The house contains an eclectic collection of thousands of objects, gathered over the years by Charles Paget Wade, whose motto was "Let nothing perish". The collection includes toys, Samurai armour, musical instruments, and clocks. Today, the main attraction of the house is perhaps the display of Wade's collection. From 1900 until 1951, when he gave the Manor to the National Trust, Wade amassed an enormous and eclectic collection of objects reflecting his interest in craftsmanship. The objects in the collection include 26 suits of Japanese samurai armour dating from the 17th and 19th centuries, bicycles, toys, musical instruments, and more.
Grade II* Listed Building
Listing Text
SNOWSHILL SNOWSHILL VILLAGE
SP 0833-0933
12/46 Snowshill Manor (formerly
listed as part of Snowshill
4.7.60 Manor with dovecote and garden
buildings) -
GV II*
Manor house, now housing collection. C17, c1720, C19, altered
1919-23 by and for C.P. Wade; minor later alterations. Coursed,
squared stone, approaching ashlar entrance front and 'Admiral':
stone slate roofs. 'Z' plan, 2-room ends, 4-room centre, 2 1/2
storeys: short additional wing towards garden. Entrance front to
south: plinth, half-glazed door up 3 stone steps to right of
centre; 4 flush panels to bottom half door, moulded surround,
large keystone, rusticated voussoirs, pediment over on acanthus
consoles, with Sambach coat of arms. To right two 2-light mullion
and transom windows, leaded lights, iron opening casements, moulded
surround matching door. To left change in stone colour, 2 sash
windows, wide glazing bars, eared surrounds, dummy keystones.
Plain string course, cut by pediment. First floor 3 mullion and
transom windows on right, 2 sash on left, both as below. Wooden
dentil eaves cornice, hipped roof. Ashlar chimney from eaves right
return, 2 diamond-set stacks, moulded cap. West elevation: right
end left return of entrance front: 18-pane sash, wide glazing
bars, ashlar surround, dropped keystone, on right to ground floor;
blocked window above. Ashlar chimney from eaves left of centre,
paired stack, moulded cap. Left return to projecting wing, boarded
door under flat Tudor arch, 3-light mullioned window, iron opening
light beyond, both to cellar. Above 2 blocked 2-light mullion
windows; gabled dormer in roof, 2-light casement. Main wing set
back on left; all windows with leaded lights and hoodmoulds.
Three-light mullioned window to cellar, 3-light mullion and transom
to ground floor, 4-light mullioned with king mullion above, 3-light
mullioned in gable, parapet gable with cross-gablet apex. High up
to left small, gabled dormer with single-light. Slightly-
projecting lateral chimney on left over lower wing, ashlar, paired
flues to upper part, moulded cap. On left projecting wing, in
near ashlar stone: wide boarded door with flat stone lintel in end
wall, single-light window each side, to cellar. Plain string
course above, extending along returns. Eighteen-pane sash, with
glazing bars, to ground floor, beaded arris to opening, hipped
roof. Against left return 11 stone steps up to quarter landing,
stone-wall balustrade on left, coped top, ball finial at foot. At
top wide boarded door with flat stone lintel to ground floor,
chamfered arris to opening: wall carried up on left to form porch,
flat stone roof, ovolo-moulded. on bottom edge. To left plinth;
all windows mullioned, with hoodmoulds. Two-light window, large
buttress with offsets, two 3-light windows, square-set C19 corner
buttress. Above, three 3-light windows, varying mouldings. To
right wall carried up in stone gable, 3-light window, parapet
gable, cross-gablet apex. Two gabled dormers to left, 2-light
casements. Set back on left, with higher ground level, gable of
C19 wing, plinth, tall, 2-light mullion window on left to ground
floor, 3-light wooden casement to first floor, wooden lintel, 2-
light similar above, parapet gable, cross-gablet apex. To right,
above parapet, C20 infill with 2-light casement.
To road: 1984 boarded door with moulded stone surround, off
quarter landing up 6 stone steps, single iron railing. Scattered
2 and 3-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds, some blocked.
Three stone parapet gables, left with chimney. Projecting chimney
to right, stone offset on left only. Parapet gable to right with
further chimney. Projecting C19 wing on right, left return boarded
door with 4-centred arch, all up 4 stone steps, slit and 3-light
casement, timber lintels; 2-light casement in gabled dormer; 2
ridge chimneys, parapet gable.
Interior: entrance hall stone paving, dado panelling, moulded
cornice, 4 panel doors. Room to left, window seats, fielded
panelling and shutters, carved panel over fireplace, C18 cast-iron
grate, moulded cornice. Room to right entrance, dust-ledge
panelling, cyma moulding to windows, ovolo to stone fireplace.
Stair hall, dust-ledge panelling, plaster above, 3 chamfered
ceiling beams, turned balusters to dogleg stairs, swept moulded
handrail, matching dado panelling. Room in adjoining wing, fielded
panelling below dado, bolection-moulded fireplace surround, cast-
iron grate, fielded panel over. Two built-in C18 cupboards:
panelled shutters. Great Hall, small-panel panelling (C20), wide
stone fireplace with flat Tudor arch, plain chamfer; small
cupboard on left at back with flue. Gallery with turned balusters
forming screen: open well stairs off with plain strings, turned
balusters;square newels with ornamental finials and pendants,
moulded handrail. Narrow spiral stone stair to attics. Ceiling
quartered, wall beams, all with wide chamfers; unchamfered exposed
joists. Room beyond, similar panelling, panel wooden barrel vault
(C20). First floor: fielded panel doors to entrance front,
cambered ceiling (C20) to corridor. First room, right, early C18
panelling, dado rail, moulded cornice, fireplace not seen. To
left, early-mid C19 fireplace surround, cast-iron grate, timber
overmantel, original moulded cornice to 2 walls. Dado rail,
panelled walls and moulded cornice to room over stair hall, secret
door to small room beyond, C20 panelled barrel vault ceiling. Room
over Great Hall, small panel panelling, stone fireplace with double
ovolo moulding, cambered cross beam, ridge beam with double ogee
moulding, chamfered ceiling joists, boards over. Timber-framed
wall to room beyond, beam and joists similar. Attics: ovolo
moulding with elaborate stop to most door frames: boarded doors.
Close-studded partition between 2 attics, as truss, ladder part way
up one side: entrance front queen strut and collar trusses, latter
with curved feet to principals. Two pairs purlins throughout, no
ridge member. Main block, including Great Hall with chamber over,
appears to have been extended to the south in line during C17;
c1720 section to left of entrance door and short wing behind added.
Entrance door formed by reusing window surround. Purchased by C.P.
Wade in 1919, and restored by him thereafter: he is said to have
purchased small-panel panelling in house in Norfolk. Property
given to National Trust 1951. Forms group with brewhouse,
dovecote, garden buildings, wall and gatepiers, and Nos 1-4 Manor
Cottages (q.v.).
(Country Life, 1927, 1978, 1980; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The
Cotswolds, 1970; National Trust Guidebook, 1985)
Listing NGR: SP0967533841
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
7812 Erlestoke Manor Nr fisherman's crossing with the driving school on Saturday 30.05.2015 Severn Valley Railway .
Kelmscott Manor, William Morris's country house near Lechlade, Oxfordshire. William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement, best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain.
Kelmscott Manor, a grade 1 Listed Tudor farmhouse adjacent to the River Thames, was built in 1570, with an additional wing added to the northeast corner in about 1665. The Manor is built of local limestone on the edge of the village of Kelmscott.
William Morris chose it as his summer home, signing a joint lease with the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the summer of 1871. Morris loved the house as a work of true craftsmanship, totally unspoilt and unaltered, and in harmony with the village and the surrounding countryside. He considered it so natural in its setting as to be almost organic, it looked to him as if it had "grown up out of the soil"; and with "quaint garrets amongst great timbers of the roof where of old times the tillers and herdsmen slept".
In 1937 Geoffrey Mander MP did something remarkable - he persuaded the National Trust to accept a house that was just 50 years old.
The local paint manufacturer and Liberal MP had been left the timber-framed house by his father Theodore. Taking inspiration from a lecture on 'the House Beautiful' by Oscar Wilde, Theodore and his wife Flora had decorated its interiors with the designs of William Morris and his Arts and Crafts contemporaries.
This house of the Aesthetic Movement was, by 1937, a relic of an out of fashion era. Yet, so complete was the design that it was worthy of preservation. Having given the house to the Trust, Geoffrey and his second wife Rosalie became its live-in curators, opening the house to the public and adding to its contents. In particular they added a remarkable collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Rossetti, Burne-Jones and their followers.
Taken from: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wightwick-manor-and-gardens
Harlaxton Manor, built in 1837, is a manor house located in Harlaxton, Lincolnshire, England. Its architecture, which combines elements of Jacobean and Elizabethan styles with symmetrical Baroque massing, renders the mansion unique among surviving Jacobethan manors.
Burton Agnes Manor House
Grade I Listed
List Entry Number: 1280994
Detail
BURTON AGNES MAIN STREET TA 1063-1163 (north side, off) 11/22 Burton Agnes Manor House
GV I
Manor house. Origins of c1170-5 for Roger de Stuteville with C15 roof, outer walls c1601-10 with later alterations including probably early-mid C18 fenestration. Pinkish-red brick in English bond with magnesian limestone ashlar dressings, with coursed magnesian limestone to rear and west and concealed roof. 3 storeys, 4 bays. 2- and 3-course chamfered plinth. Quoins. Entrance to fourth bay a C20 plank door within chamfered round ashlar arch. Windows: ground floor has 6-pane sashes, first floor has 12-pane sashes; second floor has 6-pane sashes, all within double-chamfered, ovolo-moulded ashlar surrounds. Cavetto-moulded cornice. North side. Ground floor has 3 blocked segmentally-arched openings, one blocked straight-headed opening, and remains of lancet window with chamfered surround. First floor: remains of further round-arched opening, now blocked. Ashlar chimney rises from first-floor level on corbel table. East side has blocked entrance within double-chamfered surround and similar fenestration to front facade. West side has blocked window opening which breaks moulded first-floor band; a chamfered ashlar architrave with 2-light mullion window to head; slit window. Interior. C12 undercroft of 4 by 2 bays with short, thick-set round piers with spurs to the bases, square abaci and waterleaf capitals; to westernmost pier are holes marked for 'Nine Men's Morris'. Vaults have single-chamfered ribs. Pointed arch to spiral staircase in north-west corner which leads to 2-storey former great hall. Hall: remains of blocked pointed window with Perpendicular tracery to head to west wall. Remains of fireplace. Window openings are deeper to inside on south and west facades indicating position of Elizabethan windows. Remains of segmentally-arched window to north wall. Roof: arch braces on corbels support chamfered tie beams. Dentil cornice. Exposed rafters. Moulded ridge purlin. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 207. M Wood, Burton Agnes Old Manor House, 1981.
Listing NGR: TA1025163251
Adare Manor, a hotel and country club in Adare near Limerick. This was our one night splurge during our Ireland trip. We had dinner at the Bistro - great food! Our room was part of the original manor. The grounds were superbe to wander around, but the drizzle the next morning prevented us from fruther exploration.
Wightwick was built by Theodore Mander, a successful Victorian industrialist, for his wife and family, in 1887. It was enlarged to include a Great Parlour, and more rooms in 1893. The interior decoration of the house was influenced by a lecture, given by Oscar Wilde, entitled the 'House Beautiful ', and taking inspiration from this lecture, Theodore and his wife Flora decorated its interiors with the designs of William Morris and his Arts and Crafts contemporaries. Owned by the National Trust since 1937, the Manor and its grounds are open to the public. It is one of only a few surviving examples of a house built and furnished under the influence of the Aesthetic movement and Arts and Crafts movement. After Theodore Mander died, his son Geoffrey inherited Wightwick. He added to the interiors with the purchase of several works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.