Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. A C17 Manor house.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-tallow-clover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Manor house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House, dated 1613, is a two-storey building constructed from roughly squared and coursed local stone with Ham stone dressings. It features plain clay tiles over two base courses of stone slates and has central and end stone chimney stacks, with the former extended in brick. The house has six bays and is designed as a sizeable through-passage house, possibly with a solar at the east end.
The almost central cambered arched doorway is located in bay three and has moulded jambs. To the left of the doorway are two 5-light ovolo mould mullioned windows with rectangular leaded panes, which share a label mould with the doorway. To the right, there is a small 2-light window followed by two more 5-light mullioned windows, all under the same label mould. On the first floor, there are three 4-light mullioned windows to the left under a common label, and to the right, a small 2-light window and two 4-light windows, again sharing a label.
There is a small roofed two-storey extension on the east side, possibly a garderobe, and at the rear of the east room, a full-height extension suggests a former solar. A sundial set into the wall here bears the motto "As shadows so man's life doth go" and the date 1613. Additionally, there is a 20th-century extension at the rear.
Internally, the ceiling beams feature scroll-stop chamfers, except in the east room where they are more rudimentary. The house retains two Tudor-arched wood doorways and one door, while other internal fittings, such as the staircase and doorways, are mainly from the 18th century. The layout remains largely unaltered, except for the position of the staircase, with the site of a former winding stair identifiable adjacent to the central fireplaces, all of which are early 20th-century replacements. Despite its 18th-century remodelling, the Manor House is a very good survival of its period.
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