Ewelme Manor

Heritage listing

Details SU6491 8/104 EWELME HIGH STREET (South side) Ewelme Manor 28/07/63 II* Part of Ewelme Palace, now house. c.1450 with late C18 fenestration and wing to rear left. Red brick; old plain-tile roof; brick lateral stacks to rear. Two storeys, three-window range. Six-panel door with fan-light to C19 red brick porch to centre. Sixteen-pane sashes to all openings. Right return: two storeys and attic, angled buttresses to corners. twenty-pane sashes to ground and first floor, four-pane sash to attic gable. Interior: Arch-braced collar-truss roof with sharply curved wind-braces. Last surviving fragment of Chaucer's ancestral home. Enlarged after the marriage of Alice Chaucer to William de la Pole (Earl of Suffolk) in 1430. Described by Leland in 1542, "The base court of it is fair and is builded with brick and timber. The inner part of the house is set within a fair moat and is builded richly of brick and stone. The hall of it is fair and hath great bars of iron over thwart it instead of gross-beads." What is now the Manor was part of a self-contained range for the accommodation of guests or retainers. Shown in an engraving by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck of 1729. Truncated and remodelled in 1787. Listing NGR: SU6438391449 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 247813 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.