Manor Farmhouse

ST65SW EMBOROUGH CP EMBOROUGH VILLAGE VILLAGE 8/51 Manor Farmhouse 2.6.61

GV II*

Manor house, now farmhouse. Medieval origin, early C17 alteration, some C19 work. Smooth render, pantile roofs, coped verges, brick stacks. L-plan; cross-passage. Two storeys, 2:1 bays; to left a 2 and a 3-light moulded stone mullioned window on first floor, iron casements to lights; ground floor left with a 2 and a 3-light casement, to right petal in a aoulded freestone surround, to left in plain freestone surround. The right half in projecting wing with front facing gable, a 2-stage diagonal buttress to each side, 2-light casement in a moulder freestone surround on first floor, 4-light stone moulded king-mullioned window on ground floor. Door opening to centre of left 2 bays, plank door in a freestone surround, later gabled porch; to right of porch a 2-stage buttress. Moulded 4-light stone mullioned and transomed window on right return. Solar to first floor of wing, fireplace in a moulded freestone surround with a 4-centred head, dated fireback. (Reid R D, Some Buildings of Mendip, 1979; VAG Report, unpublished SRO).

Listing NGR: ST6139651328