Thickthorn Manor

Heritage listing

Details In the entry for KENILWORTH LEAMINGTON ROAD 1/115 Thickthorn The address shall be amended to read: THICKTHORN CLOSE Thickthorn Manor (formerly listed as Thickthorn) The description shall be amended to read: Mansion, now nursing home, c.1820; restored 1987. Built of ashlar stone with cement - rendered south porch. Rectangular double-depth plan. Castellated neo-Tudor style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range with slightly-projecting 3-storey central tower over castellated porch which has label mould over Tudor- arched doorway with carved spandrels flanked by polygonal angle turrets with domed and crocketed finials. Label moulds over stone-mullioned and transomed cross windows. Castellated polygonal angle turrets and castellated parapet. Similar side elevations, each of 2-window range with full-height canted bay windows and castellated porch with angle turrets and Tudor-arched doorway to south. Three-storey extension to rear, in similar style, built 1987. Interior: restored and remodelled in 1987. Early C19 Gothic-style pilasters with crocketed finials to ceilings of 1987 in entrance lobby and stairhall. Early C19 open-well staircase with Georgian-style balustrade to main flight, Elizabethan-style obelisk finials to newels and Elizabethan-style balcony balustrade. Early C19 panelled doors flanked by columns to castellated cornices; one Tudor-arched fireplace with castellated turrets to ground floor. ------------------------------------ LEAMINGTQN ROAD 1. 1270 Thickthorn SF 27 SE 1/115 II 2. Earlier C19 Neo-Tudor castellated mansion. Cement rendered south porch, otherwise ashlar. Angle turrets, west front central tower and porch with pinnacles. Casements with mullions and transoms. Listing NGR: SP2976770816 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated f

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.