Gillow Manor
GILLOW MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1214488
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Gillow Manor
- Statutory Address:
- GILLOW MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1214488
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Gillow Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- GILLOW MANOR
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GILLOW MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hentland
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 53088 25352
Details
HENTLAND CP SO 52 NW 3/55 Gillow Manor 18.5.53 II*
House. Late C14, partly rebuilt in C16 and C17 with mid- and late C20 restorations. Coursed sandstone rubble, sandstone ashlar and dressings, timber-frame, Welsh slate roof and large external sandstone stacks. Roughly square plan with small courtyard and projecting gatehouse to south-west front. Cellar, two storeys and attic. South-west elevation has four parts: to the left gable front with C20 oak mullioned windows of four lights to lower and two lights to upper floor and a central doorway with a 4-centred head to the cellar; between the gable front and gatehouse two square headed first floor openings, beneath the right of which is a C14 unrestored traceried window with a 2-centred head, label and two cinquefoil-headed lights; the embattled C14 gatehouse to right of centre has a 4-light mullioned window to right of which is a small square headed opening under a pent roof, archway is chamfered with a 4-centred head; to the right of the gatehouse is a two-window front with C20 oak cross-casements under a roof hipped to the right. North-east elevation is much restored, to the left is exposed framing of gable front with timbers of thin scantling and two openings undergoing repair at the time of re-survey (November 1985) beneath tie-beam supporting queen-struts, collar and V-struts. Interior has 4-centred barrel vault beneath gatehouse. Heavy ceiling beams with chamfer-stops in hall to north-east range exposed since removal of partitions noted in RCHM. Collar queen-strut trusses with V-struts to most of the roofs. Late C16 open well staircase of four flights with moulded finials to newel posts and splat balusters. Interior of room behind cinquefoiled window of south-west range has a C15 statue of almost life-size man. Moat survives around north-west range. (RCHM, Vol I, p 86-7).
Listing NGR: SO5308825352
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399288
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 86-7
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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