Idbury Manor

Heritage listing

Details IDBURY CHURCH STREET SP2lNW (South side) 9/109 Idbury Manor 27.8.57 GV II Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1570 but mainly late C17 with later additions and alterations. Limestone ashlar to front and left gable end; roughly coursed rubble to rear and right gable end; stone slate roof with coped verges. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys with semi-basement and attic. 3-window front; 3-light cavetto-moulded leaded mullion windows, except centre on first floor of 2. Central entrance with C20 ledged door under ribbed segmental wooden hood approached by flight of 5 semi-basement to either side. Gabled full dormers to left and right with C20 wooden cross windows (leaded) extending below eaves. Roundel above first-floor centre window inscribed "O/MORE THAN/HAPPY/COUNTRYMAN/IF/HE BUT KNEW/HIS GOOD/FORTUNE". Twin gable ends have external end stacks with integral shafts having moulded dripstones and capping. 4 narrow rectangular windows directly above each other to right of rear stack to left side, bottom with moulded datestone inscribed "M/1570" above. Rear has original fenestration pattern of 3 windows to first and second floors, 3-light mullions to left and right with 2-light mullion to centre, right window on first floor slightly enlarged and mullions removed. Late C20 narrow rectangular window between centre and left windows on first floor. 2 gabled dormers with 4-light leaded mullion windows. Semi-basement has 3-light mullion windows to left and right with inner plank doors and infilled 2-light mullion window to centre. Interior. Main ground-floor room (originally 2 with central cross passage) has 4 chamfered cross beams and large open fireplace with segmental stone lintel to right. Dog-leg staircase in rear range rises to attic and continues down to semi-basement; slender tur

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.