Cheylesmore Manor

Heritage listing

Details Gatehouse and cross-wings to a C14 manor house, restored in the mid-C20 by FWB Charles. MATERIALS: a timber-framed structure on a sandstone plinth, with tiled roofs. PLAN: the three-bay gatehouse is orientated roughly north-west to south-east, with a central carriageway arch, which would have provided access to the manorial buildings, now demolished, to the south. The gatehouse has cross-wings at either end. EXTERIOR: the timber-framed building stands on a plinth of roughly-hewn sandstone blocks, and has three distinct sections: the C14 south-eastern cross-wing; the C16 three-bay gatehouse; and the C15 north-western cross-wing. The south-eastern cross-wing is constructed from large box framing with substantial curved struts and braces. It projects forward of the building line on the south-west elevation, where it has been truncated from the former manorial buildings. It has a pitched roof with shallowly overhanging eaves. Windows, all replaced in the 1960s, are casements in timber mullioned frames. The three-bay gatehouse abuts the cross-wing. It is of close-studded timber-framed construction beneath a pitched tiled roof. It has a central carriageway arch, also with close-studded walls, with a doorway with a depressed-arch head. The gatehouse is symmetrical on the north-east elevation, and on the south-west elevation the rightmost bay is obscured by a staircase clad in timber weather-boarding. The elevations of the north-western cross-wing are also of close-studded construction. On the north-east elevation the upper floor overhangs an open ground floor, where there is a thick masonry wall at the junction between the gatehouse and the cross-wing, enclosing its ground floor. A timber post supports the northern corner of the overhanging upper storey. There is a doo

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.