Flats 1,2 And 3 With Two Attached Follies Teffont Manor With Two Attached Follies

Teffont Manor, now comprising three flats, was originally built in the 17th century and extensively remodeled in the early 19th century. It is constructed of rubble stone and limestone ashlar with Welsh slate hipped roofs and ashlar stacks with moulded capping. The main house consists of two parallel ranges with a rear wing. The front façade is three stories high with a four-window arrangement. A battlemented porch is located to the right of centre, featuring blind quatrefoils and loopholes, and contains a planked 19th-century door with a square hoodmould. To the right of the porch is a recessed, hollow-chamfered mullioned four-light window, while to the left are three four-light mullioned windows, accompanied by a two-light and a single-light window, and a large buttress with offsets. The first floor features four mullioned and transomed four-light windows, all with hoodmoulds. The second floor has four three-light flush-mullioned windows set in cyma-moulded surrounds. A moulded cornice and battlemented blocking course top the 19th-century roof. A two-story loggia is situated to the left, incorporating round-arched openings on the ground floor and mullioned windows (two-light and three-light) on the first floor. On the left return is an external stack, a loggia with elliptical-arched ground floor openings, a pointed two-light window on the first floor, and a main range featuring a three-light mullioned window, a cross window, and two pointed windows with cusped lights on the second floor. The right return includes a fixed window, three French windows with margin-panes and hoodmoulds, external stacks with offsets, and four cross windows on the first and second floors, with the right-hand pairs having hoodmoulds. A straight joint is visible between these sections, and the building is topped with a battlemented blocking course. The rear elevation includes a loggia on the right, a four-light mullioned window to the left, and 3-light casement and margin-pane French windows on the first and second floors, with further margin-pane French windows at hillside level. The rear wing, partially built into the hillside, features an elliptical-arched chamfered doorway, a 20th-century casement, mullioned windows, and a three-light mullioned and transomed window on the first floor; a lead rainwater head dated 1947 is also present. Internally, the early 19th-century entrance hall has two elliptical arches supported by marble columns, and a C17-style staircase with turned balusters. The first floor is said to retain original 17th-century panelling. Two octagonal folly towers, built in the early 19th century, are attached to the rear wing. One tower is linked to the main house by a low range with pointed semi-circular niches, a two-light pointed window, and a roll-moulded pointed doorway, all constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings. The other folly, situated on a hillside, is single-story with a pointed doorway, chamfered lancet windows with hoodmoulds, and displays the arms of the Mayne family in a quatrefoil above the doorway, along with a moulded cornice to the battlemented parapet. The manor and its follies were embellished by John Mayne in the 1820s, alongside the rebuild of the Church of St. Michael and All Angels. The buildings are set within a picturesque landscaped valley featuring a dammed stream creating a lake to the south.