Teversal Manor

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Teversal Manor
Nottinghamshire
Teversal Manor Garden - geograph.org.uk - 762032.jpg
Teversal Manor
Location
Grid reference: SK48306182
Location: 53°9’5"N, 1°16’45"W
History
Country house
Neo-Jacobean
Information

Teversal Manor is a small, 17th-century country house in Teversal in Nottinghamshire, some thee miles west of Mansfield.

The building is constructed of coursed and dressed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. It is built in two storeys with attics with an irregular 7 bay frontage. Is a Grade II listed building.[1]

Teversal Manor and the Manor Rooms Garden

History

Before 1562 Roger Greenhalgh owned Teversal Manor: in that year the estate was inherited his son-in-law Francis Molyneux.[2] He was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1582–83. His grandson Sir John Molyneux, 1st Baronet, was High Sheriff for 1609 and created a baronet in 1611. The Molyneux baronets and families remained in the village for about 150 years.[3] On the death of Sir Francis Molyneux in 1812, his estates at Teversal and Wellow passed to his nephew Henry Howard, who adopted the surname Molyneux-Howard. He died in 1824[4] and Teversal passed to his daughter Henrietta Anna Howard-Molyneux-Howard.

The house was remodelled for Henrietta Molyneux by MacVicar Anderson in a neo-Jacobean style. Her descendants, the Eals of Carnarvon, retained the house until 1929. Elizabeth Catherine Howard Countess of Carnarvon used the Manor at Teversal for refugees.[5]

In 2012 the current owners, John and Janet Marples, after running a café and gift shop at the house for some time, announced their intention to seek planning permission to convert the house into 16 individual dwellings.[6]

In literature

The Manor was visited by Virginia Woolf in 1904,[7] and is believed to be the basis of the fictional Wragby Hall in D. H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover.[8]

Outside links

References

  1. National Heritage List 1274450: Teversal mano (Grade II listing)
  2. "History of Teversal". http://www.oldnotts.co.uk/teversal/history.htm. Retrieved 27 March 2013. 
  3. George Gershom Bonser (1940). A History of Sutton-in-Ashfield. Cooke and Vowles, the Thoroton Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=bjFAPAAACAAJ. 
  4. Cave E ‘The Gentleman's Magazine’ 1824, Volume 94, Part 2; Volume 136 page 81 pub F Jefferies retrieved on 22 August 2020
  5. Countess of Carnarvon, ‘Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey, the lost legacy of Highclere Castle’, 2011, Broadway Paperbacks, retrieved on 25 August 2020
  6. "Plans to redevelop crumbling Teversal Manor go on public display". Chad.co.uk. http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/plans-to-redevelop-crumbling-teversal-manor-go-on-public-display-1-4767019. Retrieved 27 March 2013. 
  7. Hermione Lee (1997). Virginia Woolf. Vintage Publishing. 
  8. Wright C N ‘Wright's Directory of Nottingham and twelve miles round’ 1854 pub for the compiler J Bell retrieved 22nd August 2020