Manor Farmhouse With Outbuildings And Garage To West And Wall Surrounding Garden To North With Gatepiers

ST 76 SE CLAVERTON

7/40 Manor Farmhouse with outbuildings and garage to west and wall 1.2.56 surrounding garden to north with gatepiers G.V. II

Farmhouse. Late C17, altered early C19. Coursed rubble with freestone dressings; double Roman tiled roof with coped raised verges and finials; large ashlar stacks with cornice. 2 storeys and attics in 5 hipped dormers. 4 windows on ground floor and 5 on first, all early C19 Gothic style, 3-light casements in ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds with arched heads and under a dripmould on the ground floor; the first floor left window is blocked. Central gabled, projecting ashlar porch with a finial on the apex; chamfered and 4-centre headed door surround. The east gable has a 1:3:1-light late C19 bay window. Rear elevation: four 3-light casement windows in ovolo moulded surrounds and under relieving arches and a continuous string course; three 3-light windows in 3 steep coped gables; central door in chamfered and 4-centre headed surround and flanked by buttresses. At the west end of the farmhouse is a single storey outbuilding probably a dairy, with a pantiled roof which projects over the eaves to rest on posts, thus forming a covered walkway; single and 2-light casement windows as north elevation of the house. Beyond are 2 further outbuildings: the first with a pitched roof is a former bakehouse and has a tall 3-light window; the larger and westernmost building is a former dovecote, now a garage, with sawn ashlar nesting boxes inside. A low coursed rubble wall with an ashlar coping encloses the garden in front of the farmhouse; low square ashlar gatepiers in centre of north side and taller piers at south east corner.

Listing NGR: ST7884964209