HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY
THE MANOR HOUSE 21/22 MARKET PLACE
SUMMARY
Trent & Peak Archaeology was commissioned by Bingham Heritage Trails Association (BHTA) in 2012 to survey the Manor House, 21 and 22 Market Place, Bingham. This is a complex of buildings situated on the east side of Market Place that extends south of the entrance to Robert Miles Junior School and includes Manor Cottage and a distinctive Georgian house called Manor House - together referred to here singly as Manor House. The complex is privately owned and the Georgian house part, No. 22, is Grade II listed. The complex was examined by Nottingham Tree-Ring Dating Laboratory and several timbers in No. 22 were dated by dendrochronological dating to 1752.
No. 22 Market Place, the Georgian-style building, faces west near the north-east corner of the Market Place. It is brick-built with stone and concrete dressings and has a gable-ended roof with plain tiles and pantiles. It is of 3-cell plan, with two rooms running north-south, an off-centre stack and, to the rear, a protruding stair-turret; later rooms were added to either side of this. The original plan is thus T-shaped, a form that it shares with several other buildings in Bingham. Adjoining the north end there is a two-storey tall building of differing build, one room wide with a large cellar beneath it, which probably served as the kitchen. It too has a timber probably dating from 1752.
The Georgian house is unusual in that it lacks an entrance in its street frontage or at its side but had it instead in the rear stair turret (later being moved to a south side addition). The classical-style frontage is also largely built in header bond brickwork, a technique more usually found in south-east England. It has corner pilasters, two string courses, a parapet with three panels, four sash windows with keystones (one a later enlargement) and as a centerpiece a central panel that instead of being a recess or niche curves outwards instead.
Manor Cottage to the north probably dates from the 17th century and was at least two rooms long. Little of the original structure remains as the south end has been rebuilt, the centre largely remodeled into a garage and the upper floor rebuilt. It has since been extended northwards. There is also a mid-19th century 3-bay workshop abutting the east side. In all at least five phases of build and addition have been identified on the site. Part of a possible infilled window in Manor Cottage has a brick with initials J.D and the date 1778; this may relate to work carried out by local building family, the Doncasters.
The first evidence providing an association of the site to any individual is the Earl of Chesterfield’s 1776 survey which includes a small drawing showing plot 347, a house and garden held by a mercer named John Bradshaw. This John may have instituted a major rebuilding of the Manor House site immediately after the death of his father in 1751. The house may have originally been intended as an inn (with access for horse-drawn travellers at the rear) or as a private residence. In the early 19th century members of the Grant family (related to the Bradshaws by marriage) may well have lived in the house. By 1840 it was being used as a farmhouse when the Barrott family occupied the site and for much of the 19th century it was at the heart of a small farming activity. The north part with its adjacent workshop was occupied by tradesmen. In the 20th century the house was again used as a private residence, an office and a shop.
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