Description

P 84 SW GREAT LINFORD HIGH STREET
north end

2/33 Linford Manor

3.3.52

GV II*

Country House now used as Arts Centre. c1720 remodelling of house of
c1680 with later C18 S. wing. Dressed stone with slate roof, flanking
chimneys, stone coped gables and moulded stone cornice. 3 storeys and
cellar to main block, wings 2 storeys. West front has 5 bays, sash windows
in architrave frames and central 6 panelled door with stone doorcase of
fluted Corinthian pilasters, sections of entablature and broken segmental
pediment with central coat of arms, approached by 3 moulded stone steps.
2-storey wings each side. Each wing has 2 bays of sash windows, LH wing
has central door. East front 2 storeys with central stone pedimented
door and tall semicircular arched stint window above, 2 sash windows
each side, lower flanking wings each have 2 tall sashes. Interior
staircase, panelling and chimneypieces of c1720 in main part of house.
S. wing has ballroom of c1755 with enriched cornice and coved ceiling
with plaster decoration, chimneypiece with elaborately carved overmantel
framing portrait, and pedimented doorcase with carved frieze and console
brackets. History: The house of c1680 built for Sir William Pritchard, a
City merchant; remodelled by his great nephew Thomas Uthwatt c.1720.
Ballroom added by his nephew Henry.

Listing NGR: SP8524042272

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Linford Manor at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17551931

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)