Waddon Manor With Courtyard Walls, Steps And Gate-Piers

Waddon Manor is a manor house dating to the late 17th century, with extensions around 1700 by Henry Chafin. It is constructed of Portesham rubble stone (in the north and east ranges) and ashlar (in the west range), with slate and stone slab roofs. Ashlar stacks with moulded cornices are located at the centre of the north ridge, at the junction of the north and south ridges, and on the west ridge.

The building is arranged in a U-plan around a small courtyard, which is open to the south. The north range is 1½ storeys high with three bays, featuring 2-light mullion-and-transom windows with moulded architraves, wooden casements, and glazing-bars. There are 2-light dormers with hipped slate roofs. A doorway at the centre has a square stone architrave and a 20th-century 6-panel door. The south-east range is also 1½ storeys high, with four bays. The windows are of a similar style to those on the north range. Bay two features a door, while bay four has a 2-leaf plank door with strap-hinges and a round head. An attic window has a 2-light cast-iron casement with a hipped slate roof. This range was originally used as a bakehouse and brewhouse. The west range was rebuilt around 1700, following a fire in 1701 that destroyed the westernmost range.

The garden elevation of the west range has two storeys with cellars and attics. It features a moulded plinth and plat-band. The fenestration is irregular, with one cross-transomed window of the aforementioned type, and walling blocking the formerly projecting western range. Four bays of sash windows, each with moulded stone cills, stone architraves with small projecting keys, thick glazing-bars, and crown glass are present.

Inside the west wing, the former kitchen has a stone fireplace with a wide elliptical head of dressed stone voussoirs and ashlar jambs, with a single straight chamfer. A staircase dating from around 1710 includes a cut string, turned newels, turned and octagonal balusters, and a ramped handrail with a voluted termination. Doorways are characterized by moulded, shouldered architraves with pediments. The "White" Parlour is lined with bolection-moulded panelling and has fielded-panel window shutters. The Morning Room and three bedrooms have ovolo-moulded and fielded panelling.

Attached front courtyard walls and gate-piers are constructed from dressed stone with coped tops. The ashlar stone gate-piers have roll-moulded edges and projecting cornices, with rebates terminating in scrolls. Ten stone steps lead up to the gate-piers.