Highgreen Manor

Heritage listing

Details TARSET HIGH GREEN NY 89 SW 24/88 Highgreen Manor GV II Country house with 2 cottages attached to rear. c.1885 extended 1894 for Mr. Morrison Bell. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. In 2 sections. To left the older section: 2 storeys, 5 bays. 3-bay centre has central gabled porch and paired sash windows with stepped and castellated gables over each bay. End bays are round towers; they have corbel tables and ashlar parapets with slit windows and blank recesses in raised moulded surrounds; moulded cornices and tall conical roofs with swept eaves and lead finials. Elsewhere hipped roofs with tall corniced stacks. Addition to right L-plan. Recessed linking section to left has part-glazed door with mullioned overlight; above 5 small 6-pane casements in raised moulded surrounds. Projecting right bay has 4-light window on ground floor; on 1st floor a canted oriel window on moulded corbel with shield incribed C 1894 L Flanking the oriel 2 carved panels in foliage frames, to right the W B M. Morrison Bell crest, to left a bell. Above the oriel a gable flanked by chimneys with a pronounced batter. Interior: Stone fireplace with moulded mantelshelf and large segmental overpanel bearing Morrison Bell crest, all set in aedicule with pilasters and modillion cornice. Listing NGR: NY8085391052 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 239749 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.