Shell Manor

Heritage listing

Details HIMBLETON CP SHELL SO 95 NE 7/171 (19/8) Shell Manor (formerly listed as Shell Manor 29.12.52 Farmhouse and gate piers) GV II* Farmhouse, now house. Mid-C15, partly rebuilt c1600 with late C17 and C18 additions; restored 1961-2. Timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill on lias limestone rubble plinth; plain tiled roofs. H-plan; central hall of two framed bays aligned north-west/south-east with cross-passage and porch wing; north-west solar wing of three framed bays and south-east service wing of two framed bays; the solar wing is the only surviving medieval part and has an external sandstone chimney, formerly with small gabled lancets at the corners of a short brick stack; during C16 it was surmounted by two diagonal brick shafts with oversailing cap courses inter- laced with tiles; the hall and service wing were rebuilt c1600, the hall with a rear stack, and the service wing with a side external lias limestone rubble chimney with three star-shaped shafts (though both serve only two fireplaces); late in C17 the service wing was extended by two framed bays and a C18 brick stable block was built at the rear gable end. Two storeys and attics. Framing: close-set studding throughout with some short straight braces in the upper corners; the porch wing has a jettied upper level on consoles; collar and tie-beam trusses, the solar wing has close-set studding above and below the collar, the service wing has decorative herringbone and lattice panels. South-west front elevation: C20 windows, mainly ovolo- moulded mullioned and transomed type; hall has a ground- and first-floor 4-light window; porch entrance has a moulded architrave and C17 door within; solar gable end has a 3-light window on both floors, the ground-floor window has side lights; the service gable

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.