The Manor

EXMINSTER EXMINSTER SX 98 NW

4/49 The Manor

• II

Old people's home, formerly vicarage. Early C19. Stuccoed with hipped slate roof with central valley; 2 rendered lateral stacks on each wall except for front (south- east) elevation. Square on plan, double depth with 2 principal rooms and a central corridor leading into a central stair hall and service rooms to the rear. A flat-roofed single-storey C20 1 room plan addition on the north-east elevation. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay front with a plain parapet and central round-headed doorway with a glazed fanlight and panelled soffit below an open pediment. Original front door with 4 fielded and 2 flush panels. Fenestration of 12-pane hornless sashes. The side and rear elevations have no parapet. Interior: A number of original features survive including doors, doorcases and a stair with stick balusters, ramped handrail and turned newels. The remains of decorated plaster cornices survive in ground floor room right. A good example of a large early C19 house with a front elevation conspicuous from the south-east.

Listing NGR: SX9446887814