Selly Manor
| Selly Manor | |
|---|---|
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The House in March 2011. Minworth Greaves can be seen to the rear left. | |
| Former names | Rookery Cottages |
| General information | |
| Type | Manor House |
| Address | Maple Road, Bournville |
| Town or city | Birmingham |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 52°25′51″N 1°56′03″W / 52.43077°N 1.93426°WCoordinates: 52°25′51″N 1°56′03″W / 52.43077°N 1.93426°W |
| Construction started | 14th century or before |
| Renovated | 1914–1916 |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | Cruck-frame |
| Floor count | 2 |
| Designations | Grade II listed |
| Renovating team | |
| Architect | William Alexander Harvey |
| Website | |
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Selly Manor is a timber cruck-framed, 14th-century building, in England, dating back to at least 1327.[1] Originally the manor house of the village of Bournbrook in Worcestershire (Bournbrook is now a suburb in the modern day Selly Oak ward of Birmingham), it was relocated to the nearby Bournville district in the early 20th century.[2] Together with the adjacent Minworth Greaves, it is operated as a museum and venue for functions including weddings, for which it is licensed.[3] It houses the Laurence Cadbury furniture collection.[4]
History
The building's oak frame is held together by mortice and tenon joints.[2] The brick nogging (infill) is later, 16th century, and the star-shaped brick chimneys date from the 16th or 17th centuries.[5] The building was much altered during its history, and the three gabled bays are each from a different date.[5]
Court rolls of 1327 record it as being occupied by the Jouette family, who were tax collectors.[2] By the end of the 19th century the house had been sub-divided into three dwellings, which were known as Rookery Cottages.[2]
Relocation
The building was in a poor state of repair when its destruction was prevented by George Cadbury, who acquired it in 1907.[2] From 1914,[1] he had it painstakingly dismantled, the parts numbered, and rebuilt near his chocolate factory, as a centrepiece for his model village, Bournville. The rebuilding project, completed in 1916, was overseen by the architect William Alexander Harvey, at a cost of over £6,000 (today worth £363,000[6]).[2] It opened to the public, as a museum, in 1917.[2] The house was protected with Grade II listed status in 1952.[5]
In 1932, Minworth Greaves, from Minworth, was similarly relocated, in the manor house's grounds.[7]
References
- 1 2 "Selly Manor Museum". Bournville Village Trust. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Selly Manor". Selly Manor Museum. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ↑ "Weddings & Ceremonies". Selly Manor Museum. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ↑ "Laurence Cadbury Collection". Selly Manor Museum. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- 1 2 3 "Selly Manor". English Heritage. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ↑ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2015), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
- ↑ "Minworth Greaves". Selly Manor Museum. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
External links
Media related to Selly Manor at Wikimedia Commons
