Description

SHILTON
SP20NE Manor House
4/273 (previously listed as
12.9.55 Shilton House).

GV II*

Manor House. Dated F K K (Knapp family).
1678

Coursed rubble, ashlar quoins and dressings, Cotswold stone roof. Late
example of traditional gabled C17 style. 2 storeys and attic; continuous
string over ground and first floor from which hang the drip returns
framing the windows. 2:1:2 bays; cross mullion windows with edge chamfers
(mullions only to attic and to ground-floor left-hand windows).
Projecting gabled tower porch and 2 attic gables with ball finials to
coped verges. Ashlar end chimneys. Central mid-cl9 doorway. Interior:
well stair with short landing flights, heavy turned balusters, ball-
finials, made hand-rail. Three Tudor-arch fireplaces, a good one on 1st
floor to west. Gabled stair-turret centre rear plus two dormer gables.
Victorian service wing with some matching details to North and angled bay
on ground floor.

Listing NGR: SP2654308441

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532687

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  For the Record
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)