Former Priests House, About 10 Metres East Of Wayford Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. A Medieval House. 1 related planning application.
Former Priests House, About 10 Metres East Of Wayford Manor House
- WRENN ID
- strange-wall-vermeil
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Priest's House, located about 10 meters east of Wayford Manor House, is a former parsonage that is now part of the manor estate. It dates from the 15th century and later. The building is constructed from ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring a stone slate roof on the north wing and double Roman clay tiles on the south crosswing, both topped with stepped coped gables and rendered chimney stacks.
The house has an 'L' plan with a south elevation consisting of three bays. Full-height buttresses separate the bays, which contain three-light hollow-chamfer mullioned windows set in wave-mould recesses without labels. There is a boarded door in the lower bay of the first section. The attic of the east gable features slit windows, along with a two-light mullioned window on the east side of the north wing.
The north gable, which forms part of the churchyard wall, includes a 15th-century ogee-arched cinquefoil-cusped window without a label, as well as two attic windows with slim single lights, also hollow-chamfered in wave-mould recesses without labels. Between these windows, there is a large panel with an eroded coat-of-arms set in an egg-and-tart mould frame. The west return flank of the north wing has additional two-light mullioned windows, with the upper window showing traces of ovolo-moulding. At the north end, there is an external winding staircase leading to a triangular arched opening and a boarded door framed in heavy cambered timber.
The interior is not accessible. In 1606, the building was described as a mansion with a barn, garden, and orchard. It was repaired in 1827 for an incoming curate and was intermittently occupied by the parish priest until around 1965.
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