List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: THE MANOR HOUSE
List Entry Number: 1243854
Location
THE MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Wiltshire
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Seend
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 19-Mar-1962
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System: LBS
UID: 448271
Asset Groupings
This List entry does not comprise part of an Asset Grouping. Asset Groupings are not part of the official record but are added later for information.
List Entry Description
Summary of Building
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
Reasons for Designation
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
History
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
Details
SEEND HIGH STREET
ST 9461
(south side)
12/306 The Manor House
(formerly listed as Seend
19.3.62 Manor House)
GV II*
Country House, 1767 for Ambrose Awdry IV, extended to north in
early C19, ashlar main range, with slate mansard roof and end
stacks, north front rendered with ashlar dressings, slate hipped
roof and west end stack. Basement, 2-storeys and attic. Fine 5-
window formal south front with high moulded plinth, ground floor
sill-band, modillion cornice and parapet. Plain 12-pane sash
windows to both floors, ground foor centre altered to French window
with steps up. Five flat dormers. Three-window end-walls with
blank windows, mouldings carried around and pediment feature on
broad stacks with three blank panels, pediment over and concave-
curved coping each side. East end wall has fine lead rainwater
heads dated 1767. East end former kitchen with moulded plinth,
moulded cornice and large c1900 four-light mullion-and-transom
south window. North range is added, probably around stair-
projection of 1767 house, of which hipped roof is visible. West
end is ashlar with 2-window range of blank windows, and panelled
chimney with ramped coping. Five-window north front has ashlar
plinth, angle piers, thin cornice and parapet and plain ashlar
surrounds to upper windows. Eight-pane sashes throughout,
tripartite to first floor centre. Render lined as ashlar above
and channel-rusticated below with arches over windows. Centre
half-glazed door with traceried fanlight in Ionic ashlar 2-column
porch with pilaster responds raised on three stone steps.
Interior: 1767 range has exceptional ground floor rooms with fine
plaster friezes and panelled doors in heavy pedimented surrounds.
Dining room to east, has large marble fireplace with pulvinated
frieze. Drawing-room, to west, has fine parti-coloured marble
fireplace with scrolled jambs. Plaster friezes to entrance hall,
first floor landing and small first floor centre room which has
Palladian tripartite surrounds to doorway and cupboards each side.
Staircase, with turned balusters, appears part of forward extension
of house c1820. Former kitchen at east end has large Tudor-arched
stone fireplace with similar Tudor-arched recesses each side,
probably all mid to late C18.
Ambrose Awdry II bought the site in 1695 and built a 'mansion
house' before 1701. Ambrose Awdry IV inherited 1761, rebuilt it
1767 and was outlawed for debt 1783. Ambrose Awdry V regained
the house in 1812 and the north front may have been added by him.
(E. Bradby, Seend A Wiltshire Village, 1981, 74, 196-7.
Listing NGR: ST9447161044
Selected Sources
Books and journalsBradby, E, Seend a Wiltshire Village, (1981), 74
Bradby, E, Seend a Wiltshire Village, (1981), 196 197
Map
National Grid Reference: ST 94471 61044
This copy shows the entry on 24-Apr-2024 at 06:50:03.