Shelford Manor was a garrison of the Royalists throughout the Civil War. In 1645 the Parliamentary forces moved against Shelford which is described as a fortified house (with earthworks - L 1815). The house was captured with great slaughter, 160 Royalists being killed. (1)
Part of the burned house was incorporated into the present house. (2)
C17/C18 house with some mullioned and transomed windows, much altered. (3)
Within the fabric, fragments of an earlier building or buildings are visible in the forms of blocked mullion and transomed windows of Elizabethan type ... At several points the stones exhibit scorch marks. (4)
Incorporating masonry of Shelford Priory … founded c.1160-80. (5)
Named 'Shelford Manor' on both (6) and (7).
Built … c.1600, probably by Robert or John Smythson for the Stanhope family, burnt 1645, rebuilt c.1678. (8)
See M 1814 for Priory, L 1815 for earthworks.

Listed buildings slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

<1> Firth CH (ed), 1906, Lucy Hutchinson: Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (2nd edn), pp 121, 174, etc. (Published document). SNT245.

<2> Wood AC, 1937, Notts in the Civil War, pp 33, 37, etc. (Published document). SNT1430.

<3> Pevsner N, 1951, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, p 157 (Monograph). SNT49.

<4> Seaman BH, 1960, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1243.

<5> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p 309 (Monograph). SNT4.

<6> Chapman J, 1774, Nottinghamshire - approx 1in (Map). SNT550.

<7> Sanderson G, 1835, 20 miles around Mansfield - 2 in (Map). SNT48.

<8> DOE, Listed Building Description (Published document). SNT228.