Shephall Manor

Heritage listing

Details 1. 5257 TL 22 SE 5/154 LODGE WAY/BROADHALL WAY Shephall Manor II Country house, now school. 1865 by T Roger Smith for Unwin Heathcote. Red brick with box ground stone dressings; gabled plain Staffordshire tile roofs with stone-coped gabled brick ridge and end stacks with diagonally-set flues. L-plan with servants' wing projecting to front right. High Victorian style to asym- metrical elevations. 2 storeys and attic; 6-window range. Gabled central porch: flush crocketed gable over pointed-arched doorway with ballflower ornament to moulded architrave set on engaged shafts with foliate capitals: trefoiled frieze and stone bands to first floor which has 2-light chamfered stone-mullioned window; hood mould with foliate stops over 2-light Decorated window. 5-light pointed- arched window to hall on right with high transom dividing upper row of star-shaped lights from trefoiled lights; horned plate-glass sashes set in chamfered stone architraves and trefoiled lights to gabled dormers. Plain gable end to right with raised brickwork beneath stack. Canted stair tower at angle with service wing, with crocketed capitals to pointed-arched doorway, small trefoiled lights and gargoyles to quatrefoil parapet. Partly-gabled 2-storey, 6-window range service wing to left has plate-glass sashes set in chamfered stone architraves and 2 half-dormers with 2 lateral stacks to left. Right side wall has canted stone oriel with foliate-carved frieze and capitals; hood mould with foliate stops over 3-light window with high and low transoms dividing trefoiled lights from trefoils above and quatrefoils below; square-headed doorway set in segmental-headed archi- trave with ballflower ornament; trefoiled lights to gabled dormers; gable end to right has similar 3-light window above canted oriel

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.