Pickwell Manor Including Front Garden Walls And Features And Retaining Wall With Outbuilding To Rear

Pickwell Manor is a large house, largely rebuilt between 1902 and 1905 for Sir Montague Style, though incorporating some late medieval fabric in a rear wing. The house is mainly constructed of rock-faced stone, with dressed stone quoins and ashlar dressings around the openings. It has slate roofs with coped gables and a stack at each gable end of the main range. The architectural style is Jacobethan.

The main range is essentially L-shaped, with a central gabled projection extending to the rear. The two angles of this rear projection feature large L-shaped ranges to the left and right, along with two shorter parallel ranges with gable ends. The main range has two storeys and a five-window front. The outer gabled projections have five-light cavetto mullion windows with dripstones and relieving arches on each floor; the ground floor windows are transomed, with the transoms extending below the central light on the left and three middle lights on the right, and the sills of the outer lights are also transomed. A central bay has a gabled dormer with ball finials to the kneelers. A canted two-storey bay window, also cavetto mullioned with three lights and single side lights, features on the ground floor with four-centred arches and a blind panel above. The central gable has a keyed oculus, and the outer gables have ventilation slits. Recessed bays have shaped brackets to the eaves soffit, creating canted flat-roofed dormers of three lights with single sidelights above. The main windows have square leaded panes. A four-centred arched doorway, with a stopped and chamfered surround is located to the left of the left-hand bay. The main entrance to the rear extension of the central bay features a large three-light transomed window above a four-centred arch doorway with a hollow chamfered and stopped surround, surmounted by scrolled brackets flanking blind stone panels with projecting dentilled lintels. Datestones reading 1588 and 1904 appear on the gable walls of the two projections to the left of the doorway, and 1905 is on a rainwater head. A reset 15th-century pointed arch stone doorway with a moulded and stopped surround is found in the rear angle of the L-shaped range to the rear.

The front garden walls, which enclose three sides, are of rubble stone with ashlar cappings, and incorporate a colonnade of square rubble piers, a terrace wall, and central circular pond walls, all forming part of a landscaped garden created in 1905. To the rear is a two-storey outbuilding built into the bank, with flanking retaining rubble walls. The outbuilding has rubble stone construction with dressed stone to the openings and brick inner arches, and a slate roof. It was likely constructed as a folly resembling a chapel, featuring a reset 15th-century pointed arched door with a moulded and stopped surround, a pointed arched window on the end floor to the right, and a buttress on the left side with offset.

The interior of the main range retains much of the original 1905 decorative scheme, including five tapestried wall coverings in the front principal room. The first floor room in the L-shaped wing to the rear has 18th-century panelling.