Clewer Manor

Heritage listing

Details This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/12/2019 SU 97 NE 599/8/10011 WINDSOR Longbourn Meryton House (Formerly Clewer Manor) (Formerly listed as Clewer Manor, IMPERIAL ROAD) GV II Large house with stable and coach-house and garden walls; then school. Dated 1841 (on weather-vane) for Edmund Foster; alterations 1860s, for Edmund Benson Foster (inherited 1862); alterations 1922, extensive additions and further alterations 1936, all for Imperial Service College. Red brick, mostly in English bond, with blue header-brick decoration and diaper-work; Bath stone ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs. House of two storeys with attic. In Jacobean style, having: plinth; offset ashlar bands; quoined surrounds to mullioned and transomed windows; roll-moulded coping and finials to shaped gables; ashlar gargoyles; pierced ashlar parapets; chimneys with clustered octagonal stacks. Entrance (south-west) elevation: seven asymmetrical bays. The three principal bays to right form a balanced composition and have a projecting central entrance bay with curvilinear gable. Stone steps with decorative side walls and piers lead to internal porch which has four-centred arch of several orders, dripmould, coats of arms to tympana, and pointed-arched side-walls. Inside, further steps up to double-door with side-lights, all with pointed-arched panels below decorative etched glass (gone from doors). Above entrance is three-light oriel, stepped three-light attic window, and decorative initialled panel to gable. Flanking bays each have an added two-storey canted bay window and one-light window to gable, that on right widened. Tall chimneys flank entrance bay. Bay to left of this rises as tower under swept ogee roof with bracketed eaves cornice, obelisk finial and weather-vane; windows

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.