The Old Manse

The Old Manse is an 18th-century house located at the end of a row on New Street in Somerton. It is constructed from local lias stone ashlar with painted Ham stone dressings and features a clay pantiled roof that is set behind a plain parapet between coped gables. The building has brick and stone chimney stacks at either end.

The house is two storeys high and has three bays. It includes a plinth, cornice moulding, and pilaster panels only at the parapet. The windows are 12-pane casements set in keystoned architraved surrounds. In the lower bay three, there is a six-panel door with glazed toplights, also in a keystoned architraved surround, which is topped by a moulded flat stone hood supported by console brackets. There is a return wing at the rear that is set lower than the main structure. The interior has not been seen. The style of the building resembles that of Nathaniel Ireson of Wincanton, but there is no evidence to confirm his involvement.