The Manor House, Holt, Wiltshire, BA14 (Grade II)

ST 86 SE HOLT LEIGH ROAD (off east side)

5/58 The Manor House

Manor house. Late C17, late C18, mid C19 and early C20. Rubble stone, Welsh slate hipped roof, stone stacks. Rambling L-plan. Two-storey, 6-window front. Recessed C20 door with niche to right and small sash to left, within Tuscan portico of c1980, two 16-pane sashes to first floor. Matching flanking wings, the left one with two 12-pane sashes to ground and first floor, the right one with two 16-pane sashes to ground and first floor. Mid C19 ashlar wing projecting to left has 12-pane sashes and plat band. Right return has five French windows to ground floor within C20 loggia, five first floor sashes, two flat-headed attic dormers with 2-light casements. Left return has 8-pane sashes to C19 wing, left return of C17 range has two cross windows with fillet-mouldings to ground floor and three to first floor, moulded string course, wing to left built as services, has sashes and 6-panelled door, gable end with 1913 datestone. Rear has lean-to extensions, half-glazed door and 4-pane and 16-pane sashes, gable end of C17 range has early C20 renewed cross windows and string course. Interior largely remodelled C20, retains original early C19 joinery; 6-panelled doors in moulded architraves, window shutters, open-well stairs with stick balusters, cantilevered stone stairs with moulded handrail, chamfered beams in C17 range, moulded C17 balusters on attic landing.