Woore Manor

Heritage listing

Details SJ 74 SW 3/140 WOORE C.P. AUDLEM ROAD (south side) Woore Manor II House. Early C19 with late C19 and early C20 alterations and additions at rear. Red brick with hipped graded slate roof. Two storeys over basement. Rendered plinth, flat stone string course, and moulded eaves cornice. Central integral brick lateral stack at rear. 2:1:2 bays; glazing bar sashes with grey sandstone cills and lintels. Central pair of three-panelled doors with panelled reveals, reeded impost band with central oak-leaf motif and square paterae at each end (to returns), wreathed radial fanlight, and wooden Ionic doorcase with reeded columns (capitals with large volutes) supporting sections of entablature and open triangular pediment. Two stone steps up to doorway. Left-hand return front: Two first-floor sashes flanking C20 sundial and ground-floor tripartite sash with reeded pilaster strips and cornice. Three stone steps up. Two-storey rear wing with two brick stacks and two flat-topped dormers with globe finials. Early C20 (c.1914) block in angle. Interior: entrance hall has moulded ground and first floor with mutules and central plaster ceiling rose. Early C19 dog-leg oak staircase with half landing, open string with cut brackets, stick balusters with beaded corners, ramped moulded handrail and wreathed columular foot newel; first-floor balustrade returning to front. Small flight up to rear wing from half landing. Blocked or blind depressed archway on half landing with Corinthian columns. Left-hand ground-floor room: plaster frieze and cornice with acanthus and egg and dart enrichment, and enriched soffit. Mid-C19 fireplace overmantel with carved oak-leaf ornament to surround and egg and dart enrichment to inner surround. Right-hand ground-floor room: cornice with acanthus enrichment.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.