History

The present Kilvrough Manor was probably built in the 1770s by William Dawkins as a substantial enlargement of an earlier house. The stable court was added c1800 contemporary with the enlargement of the service range, to which it is attached. During the 1939-45 war the house was occupied by RAF officers and was subsequently converted to an Outdoor Education Centre.

Exterior

Comprising a courtyard with wings to the S, E, and W sides, and a wall and gateway on the N side facing the main drive. The wall is rubble stone and is swept up at the ends and in the centre to square hammer-dressed gate piers. The courtyard wings are 2-storey, of rubble stone partly rendered and partly whitewashed, with hipped slate roofs except for the SW side, where the roofs are gabled. The W wing has added skylights. Facing the courtyard, the S wing has a passage to the R and a boarded shutter to a segmental-headed window in the centre. An open lean-to is on the L side. The upper storey has a 4-light window R of centre and an inserted window to the L with brick jambs and covered with corrugated plastic. The W wing has, to the R, a 12-pane hornless sash window under segmental head, L of which is a boarded door under an overlight leading to a through passage to the front of the service wing. To the L of the passage is a former carriage doorway under a wide lintel, but now with a door and window inserted below it. At the L end is a tall, wide round-headed opening now infilled and with a boarded door and a boarded-over window inserted into it. The upper storey has a 2-light casement to the centre with a thin sill and an inserted wide 2-light window to its L. The E wing has a boarded door under an overlight R of centre, a cross window to its R, and 2 replaced windows to its L. A similar replaced window is upper R. The N end wall of the wing has a central upper-storey window, now boarded up, with a stone sill. The W wing end wall has 2 original round-headed openings in the upper storey with replaced windows. The E wall of the E wing has 3 blocked round-headed windows in the upper storey and a small casement lower R. The S side of the S wing faces an upper yard with an attached rubble-stone wall on the R side. Attached to this is an open projection with a corrugated plastic roof, within which the S wing has a fixed pane window and a boarded door. In the centre are a wide boarded door and window, both replaced, with the passage at the L end. The S gable end of the W wing is set back from the S wing, and has a courtyard wall attached.

Interior

The W wing has a king-post roof. The remainder was not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a substantial service block to an important country house, and for group value with Kilvrough Manor and other associated listed items.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29500003

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas