The Manor

The Manor is a house located on Hamp Street in Bridgwater, originally part of a 16th-century house known as The Priory. It was built around 1840 and features painted roughcast walls with rusticated stone quoins and dressings, a slate roof, and rendered stacks with two octagonal reconstructed stone shafts that have moulded cornices and plinths at the gable ends, as well as five shafts on the rear right party wall. The building is designed in a domestic Tudor Revival style and has a single-depth plan with two storeys and a symmetrical three-window range.

A notable feature is the two-storey flat-roofed rectangular stone bay window, which has a full-height Ham Hill stone triangular projection in the center. This bay window is flanked by high parapet walls with moulded coping and a string course below, each gabled at the center with a shield in a recessed square panel and castellated sides. The windows have chamfered architraves and consist of four-light casements, with each leaf containing four panes. The ground floor windows are French doors with overlights, while the gabled right return has similar three-light windows.

Inside, The Manor was once a reception wing added to The Priory at the rear. The two large rooms on the ground floor have been subdivided, but some original features remain, including a moulded cornice, high skirting boards, and six-panel doors with two rows of three vertical panels.