Teversal Manor


Teversal Manor is a small Grade II listed 17th-century country house in Teversal, Nottinghamshire, some 5 km 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.

History

The manor of Teversal was inherited in 1562 by Francis Molyneux. He was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1582–83. His grandson John Molyneux was High Sheriff for 1609 and created a baronet in 1611.
The estate descended to Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet, who was a courtier who became Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. On his death, unmarried, his estates at Teversal and Wellow passed to his nephew Henry Howard, who adopted the surname Molyneux-Howard and died in 1824.
Teversal passed to his daughter Henrietta Anna Howard-Molyneux-Howard, who married in 1830 John George, the 3rd Earl of Carnarvon. He died young in 1849, but his widow lived until 1876. The house was remodelled by MacVicar Anderson in a neo-Jacobean style for the Hon. Henrietta Molyneux. The Carnarvons retained possession of the house until the death of Henry, the 4th Earl's wife, Elizabeth Catherine, in 1929.
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.
Teversal Manor is widely considered to be the basis of the fictional Wragby Hall in D.H.Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover