Morebath Manor

Heritage listing

Details SS 92 NE MOREBATH 2/119 Morebath Manor - II Country house. 1892-4, built for Charles Digby Harrod, the owner of the Knightsbridge store, following his retirement in 1891. Architect unknown to date. Cavity wall construction of yellow brick and Bathstone dressings and quoins; slate roofs; brick chimneys with tall red brick shafts with ornamental brick mouldings and cornices. The rear elevation is rendered. Eclectic mixture of free Jacobean and Classical style with some Art Noveau detail. Plan: Approximately rectangular but irregular at the rear with a rear stair wing, single storey billiard room and servants' hall. Off-centre entrance into the main block into a small heated entrance hall; axial passage to rear of entrance hall; open well stair opposed to entrance hall; L plan drawing room to left of entrance, dining room and library to right. Service block slightly set back at right end is double depth with a kitchen and scullery at the front, an axial passage and a range of subsidiary service rooms to the rear of the passage. Billiard room in rear left wing at right angles to main range. Exterior: Modest slightly asymmetrical exterior of 6 plus 3 bays, the 3-bay service block set back at the right end; platband with moulded cornice, stone quoins to the outer and entrance bays. The outer bays of the 6-bay main block are gabled to the front and broken forward; entrance in third bay from the left also broken forward with a curly gable and ball finials. Large gabled glazed porch with good ornamental ironwork to the front and iron trusses; half-glazed outer door with round-headed fanlight flanked by round-headed windows. 2-light timber mullioned and transomed window above porch, similar windows to adjacent bay to the right; other windows on the front elevation are 2-p

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.