Hews the Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. House.

Hews the Manor House

WRENN ID
fallen-quartz-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Hews the Manor House, Lydeard St. Lawrence
OS grid reference
ST 128 321
Coordinates
51.08211, -3.24523
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manor House, now divided, is a house from the 17th century that was enlarged and altered in the early 19th century. It has a rendered exterior and a slate roof with deep eaves and a soffit board. The roof is gabled on the right and hipped on the left wing, with brick stacks on either side of the original block. The building has a two-cell plan with a cross passage, originally facing west, which was later enlarged to a "U"-shape and linked to an existing building to the north in the early 19th century, forming a roughly "L"-shaped block.

It is two stories tall with irregularly placed windows. On the first floor, there are three 4-light mullion windows featuring early 19th-century casements with leaded panes. The ground floor has 4-light mullions flanking a 20th-century door on the right, with a 3-light window to the left and a 20th-century door beyond that. The two ground floor windows in the center have hood moulds, and both doors are sheltered by flat-roofed porches supported by brackets. There is 20th-century fenestration in one bay of the projecting left wing.

Inside, the kitchen to the left of the cross passage has steeply chamfered beams without stops, and the room to the southeast features an early 19th-century plaster frieze. This building was never the Manor House; it likely acquired that name during the early 19th-century enlargement.

Local climate

Hews the Manor House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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