The Old Manor House And Attached Rear Courtyard Wall

KEYNSHAM

ST6568 BRISTOL ROAD 739-1/4/27 (South West side) 19/06/75 The Old Manor House and attached rear courtyard wall (Formerly Listed as: BRISTOL ROAD Old Manor House)

GV II

House, now hotel. Reputedly dating from 1617; mid C19 restoration. Squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and copings, gabled pantile roof with end and mid-ridge stone stacks. STYLE: Tudor Gothic. PLAN: cross-passage, double-depth plan with rear service wings parallel to road with further range at right-angles to north. EXTERIOR: 2-storeys and attic; 6-window range. Roadside facade completely remodelled in the mid C19: three 4-light and one 3-light chamfered-mullion windows with dripstones to ground floor; four 3-light mullion windows to first floor; 2 gabled half-dormers with 2-light mullion window. Central gabled porch with Tudor-arched outer entrance and inner, original Tudor-arched doorway with plank door. Square turret rising through roof to north-east corner with slit windows and spired tile cap; stacks with paired shafts and row of three to north; ridge tile cresting. Gable end of north range to road has blocked mullioned window. Rear courtyard with 3 gabled wings extending from main range to left; early C19 outshut with gable to left at south-west corner. Gable ends have coped parapets, that to north with tall ashlar stack. Mostly early C19 plate-glass sash fenestration in flush ashlar surrounds, though south-west outshut has plate-glass sashes with margin glazing under cambered heads. INTERIOR: cross-passage has small late C18 wooden elliptical arches to ceiling, 2-light chamfered-mullion on south wall and early C19 stained glass window to rear wall. Large inglenook fireplace in ground-floor right-hand room. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rear courtyard has retaining wall to which are attached ancillary buildings; 2m high of squared, random coursed limestone, minor brick infill and some cambered ashlar coping stones and cement coping.

Listing NGR: ST6529268851