Wraxall Manor With Attached Front Walls, Piers, Gates.

Wraxall Manor is a manor house dating to the early 17th century, likely designed by William Lawrence. It is situated with associated front walls, piers, and gates. A service range was added to the rear of the main block in the early 20th century, connecting to a formerly detached south-west block. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with slate roofs and stone gable-copings. Features include four stone stacks, dating to the 17th century, with moulded cornices on the gable ends of the main parallel ridges, and one on each of the four front gables.

The house is of double-depth construction, with a central through-hall. The rear staircase hall was remodelled in the early 20th century. The front facade comprises four bays, with a two-storey porch centrally positioned between bays two and three. The main windows are four-light, hollow-chamfered stone mullions with transoms and straight heads, each with separate labels. Windows are fitted with a combination of iron and 20th-century metal casements containing rectangular leaded lights. Blocked two-light stone mullions, also with separate labels, are present in each gable. The central porch has a stone gable-coping, an obelisk finial, and a slate roof, with a moulded jamb and four-centred head to the outer entrance, and similar detailing to the inner doorway, leading to a studded plank-and-muntin door. The north wall features blocked mullions with four-centred heads of two, three, and four lights. The south wall is characterised by four-light mullions with transoms throughout, and two-light windows in the gables.

The service range linking to the south-west block is designed in a compatible early 20th-century style, featuring two- and three-light stone mullions with metal casements and lead lights, and separate labels. The south-west block, set at right angles to the road, is constructed of matching materials, with stone stacks at the gable end facing the garden and the main house. It has two storeys and features three- and four-light stone mullions with renewed casements; the mullions facing the road have four-centred heads. A recessed-panelled service door, dating to the 19th century, is located on the south-west side.

The interior contains 17th-century stone fireplaces with moulded jambs and depressed-arch heads in ground floor and first floor rooms, some set diagonally. One front room features a neo-Classical fireplace with Siena and white marble, urn imposts, and a central pulpit. The interior was extensively refashioned in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the rear stairwell and staircase, which were redesigned in the early 20th century. Surviving features include window seats and panelling within the main house. The south-west block contains a roof of six bays, with moulded arch-brace trusses and heavy purlins dating to the 16th century, referred to as “The Chapel” in records from the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments.

Attached front walls, gate piers, and gates enclose the property. The lower, rubble-stone walls are stone-coped and topped with iron railings. Square stone gate piers have pyramid capstones and large ball finials. The wrought-iron gate is of 18th-19th century origin.