Bevere Manor

Heritage listing

Details SO 85 NW NORTH CLAINES CP BEVERE 6/34 Bevere Manor 14.3.69 GV II House, now converted into 3 separate dwellings. Mid-C18, enlarged early C19, with late C19 and mid-C20 alterations and additions. Roughcast, hipped, slate roof partly behind parapet, large brick chimney stacks. Partly 3, partly 2 storeys and cellar. U-shaped plan; originally a mid- C18 house facing south, wings added at each end during early C19,,the west wing forming the new front elevation and the south gable ends of each wing terminating in flat-roofed, bowed projections. West front elevation: 2 storeys, first floor sill band and moulded cornice below parapet; 6 bays, central entrance and irregularly spaced fenestration; ground floor has multi-paned double doors and a blocked tall window to left of entrance and 3 tall openings to right, the outer ones are blocked and the central one contains a 15-pane sash; on the first floor are four, 15-pane sashes, bay four and six are blocked; all sash windows have decorated blind boxes; entrance has 2 Doric columns supporting a moulded flat canopy, and a door with 6 raised and fielded panels, side lights and above them a large, traceried segmental fanlight. A single storey kitchen wing adjoins to left. The south elevation is of 1:5:1 bays; central 5 bays are 3 storeys with band between storeys and a dentilled eaves cornice; ground floor has 2, C20 doors, first floor has glazing bar sashes and second floor 6-pane sashes; the outer bays are bowed and 2 storeys with a sill band beneath the first floor window; both have tall tripartite windows with Doric columns on both floors with decorative glazing and a central cross casement. Interior has been much altered and the east wing converted from 2 to 3 storeys. There are 2 stained glass windows to rear of original

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.