Sheepcote Manor

Heritage listing

Details SU 98 NW 3/1 TAPLOW WOOBURN COMMON ROAD Sheepcote Manor II 1914 country house built for G Aird. Inscribed G A 1914. Red brick and timber-frame neo C16 style with steep old tile roofs and tall modelled brick stacks. Two storeys, L plan. Garden front has three large jettied timber-framed gables with herringbone brick infill and oak mullioned windows. All windows leaded. Ornamental downpipes and gutter across centre at first floor level. Ground floor centre has three French windows each with brick arched heads carrying upper mullion with top lights each side. To each side a three sided brick bay with brick mullions and transomes to windows. Entrance front has door under large jettied gable at north end, two storey range with upper floor tile-hanging to left and brick stair tower in angle to rear range, which has three hipped dormers with brick surrounds and a two and a half storey projecting end gable, tile-hung in upper floors. Interiors: largely neo c1700, stair with heavy moulded rail and turned balusters. In a room by front door a small ceiling with crude decorative plaster, possibly original early C17. Listing NGR: SU9259187267 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 44314 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.