Manor

OLD MANOR HOUSE

MAIDEN BRADLEY CHURCH STREET ST 83 NW (west side) The Old Manor House (formerly listed as The Post Office Stores) 6.1.66 GV II Detached house. Mid C17. Rubble stone, hipped tiled 2-span roof with bands of fishscale tiles, stone and brick stacks in valley. Two-storeys, attic and cellar; 3-window east front. Central door with 6 fielded panels in moulded surround with stops, within stone porch with moulded stone doorway and hipped roof, cellar has 2- light chamfered mullioned casement to left and 3-light mullioned casement to right, chamfered plinth to ground floor; 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window with hoodmould either side of porch. First floor has three 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with hoodmoulds, all casements are leaded. Right return, now main entrance front, has 3-light chamfered mullioned cellar casement to left of central gabled stone porch with moulded doorway with hoodmould, 9-panelled inner door, coped verge with swan with coronet, 3-light mullioned and transomed window with hoodmould either side. First floor has two mullioned and transomed casements. Two hipped attic dormers with leaded 2-light casements. Rear has late Cl9 brick single-storey lean-to extension, first floor has two 3-light ovolo-mullioned casements, one above the other, lighting stairs to centre, two cross windows with hoodmoulds either side. Left return has 3-light mullioned and transomed casements to both floors, 2-light casements to two hipped dormers. Interior not accessible at time of survey (October 1986), but said to retain good original C17 features such as stairs with splat balusters, first floor stone fireplace with volutes and rich foliage carving. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)

English Heritage

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Text: A History Of Maiden Bradley by H.D.Kitching< 1821.There may also have been a fair sized house on or near the site of the present Bradley House. Shortly after 1565 the Lamberts, who went to live near Winchester, sold the D`Aungers Manor to Sir Edward Seymour for £460 and this included their Manor House (now styled "The Old Manor House"). The Seymours, although they now owned South Court and Katesbench, could not get possessions of the former home or farms pertaining to each owing to the long leases granted by the last Prior, and it may be that Sir Edward intended to do up the Lambert`s house for himself and his family when visiting the village. In the 1779 rate record three Inns are mentioned , The bell The George and The Shoulder Of Mutton . Where the George was we do not Know, but it was presumably a coaching Inn, and would therefore have been on one of the two coaching routes running through the village . It did not last long and by 1783 its place had been taken by The New Inn - the Old Manor House in Church Street (more recently used as the village shop and Post Office) , it outlasted all others and was still going until the Somerset Arms was built in 1865.Learn more