Clifford Manor

Heritage listing

Details SP15SE 1912-1/1/53 CLIFFORD CHAMBERS Clifford Manor (Formerly Listed as: CLIFFORD CHAMBERS Manor House) 06/02/52 GV II* Manor house. c1700, probably on site of manorial court house with alterations after fire, 1919-21, by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped graduated stone slate roof with several brick stacks. H-plan with long rear wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 9-bay range: 2:5:2 bays. Central block flanked by advanced wings with central entrance bay breaking forward under pediment. Ashlar plinth and quoins and plat band over ground floor; top modillioned timber cornice. Entrance has bolection-moulded architrave and small-paned overlight to small-paned half-glazed door; niche above has shell vault and pediment containing armorial bearing with mantling. Flanking windows have rubbed brick flat arches with keys over 9/9 sashes with thick glazing bars in flush wood frames. 4 oeil-de-boeuf windows to 1st floor. Wings have 2 sashes to each floor, 9/9 sashes to ground floor, 6/6 sashes to 1st floor. Right return has window to left of, and 3 windows to right of, a lateral stack with armorial plaque and early C20 2-storey bay window with flat roof over paired sashes; 18-pane sashes to ground floor and 12-pane sashes to 1st floor (horned to bay). Left return, including long wing mostly by Lutyens, has 2 single-storey porches with pavilion roofs and 4-fielded-panel doors; windows mostly with 12-pane horned sashes, and 2 taller windows to left end with 6/9 sashes; one hipped dormer with 2-light leaded glazing; 2 cross-axial stacks; right end has lateral stack with some dressed stone and bell under lean-to canopy to right, and 2-storey hipped bay with 8:12:8-pane horned sashes. End of wing has tripartite sash and hipped dormer, originally joined a

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.