Manor Farm House

ST51NE MUDFORD CP PRIMROSE LAKE (off) UP MUDFORD

6/106 Manor Farm House

19.4.61

• II*

Manor house. 1630 with earlier and later parts. Ham stone ashlar, with extensions in coursed rubble and Mudford brick; concrete imitation stone slates, after fire damage circa 1915, stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys with attic; South front of 4 bays with one-bay extension to bay-1, with 6+2-light hollow chamfer mullioned windows, and corbelled attic gable with 4-light windows, and ball finials to crown and end of coping. 4-light hollow chamfer windows bays 2 and 4, and a 3-light to bay 3 over a rebuilt doorway; boarded door with architrave and flat moulded hood on console brackets, with cuboid sundial over similar to that of St Mary's Church Mudford (qv) - door knocker, now removed, was dated 1730. 2-storey brick extension in English bond with 4-light mullioned window; later extension in squared rubble to rear. On site of a cell used by monks of Montacute Abbey, developed into house in 1630 by John Harbin; at one time the Courthouse was in its grounds. (Francis Goulding, Ashington, Chilton Cantelo, Mudford: the Story of Three Somerset Parishes, 1982).

Listing NGR: ST5774718897