Campton Manor

Heritage listing

Details TL 1237 CAMPTON RECTORY ROAD (South Side) 4/14 16.1.52 Campton Manor (formerly listed as Manor House) - II* House. Built c.1590 for the Ventris family. C18 and C19 additions and alterations. Close-studded timber frame with colourwashed plaster infill, rear elevation in red brick with flared header decoration. Clay tile roof. Hall and cross-wings, hall of 2 storeys, cross-wings of 2-storeys and attics. Front elevation: 3 small additional gabled projections to hall block, 2 storeyed, of later date. Of these LH one is in position of original front door, whilst central one, probably C18, contains present front door. Ground floor has paired sash windows to cross-wings and 2 sashes to hall, all with glazing bars. LH small gable has leaded single-light. First floor has sash window with glazing bars to each cross-wing, small single-light to LH small gable, 2 single-light casements with glazing bars to hall, and 4-light casement with glazing bars to central gable. Cross-wings have single leaded light to attic. Shallow C20 Tudor-arched porch addition to central gable. C20 door. Both cross-wings have substantial brick chimneys projecting from side elevations, RH one with diagonal stacks. LH cross-wing has later colourwashed rendered lean-to to side elevation. Rear elevation: refaced and extended C18 in red brick. Hall retains C16 projecting red brick stack, with C20 single-storeyed addition in front. 2-storeyed polygonal bay extension to LH cross-wing, rectangular 2-storeyed extension to RH cross-wing, and extensions to hall flanking-chimney, all C18. Variety of windows, mostly sashes with glazing bars, some original flush sashes. Central windows to LH polygonal bay and 2 doorways (with C20 glazed doors) to RH bay have semi- circular heads. These and flat heads to other wi

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.