Vallis Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1976. Manor house. 2 related planning applications.

Vallis Manor House

WRENN ID
waning-rotunda-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1976
Type
Manor house
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Vallis Manor House is a manor house that has been divided, originally built in the late 15th century for the Leversedge family. An additional east-west wing was added in the 17th century, connecting the hall and cross wing to a 15th-century outbuilding, creating an L-shaped plan. The building has undergone substantial alterations in the 20th century.

Constructed of random rubble, the hall is located to the south and retains one bay of an arch-braced collar beam roof supported by plain stone corbels, although the rest of the roof is missing. The east-west block features a 20th-century concrete tile roof and has three rebuilt rubble stacks. The south frontage is two storeys high and consists of three bays on the left and five bays on the right. It has ogee-moulded stone-mullioned windows with two and three lights, and stopped labels. The first floor windows are situated under three small gables. To the left of the frontage, there is a two-stage buttress with weathered offsets positioned between the third and fourth bays.

There are two door openings; a plank door is located to the right, while a gabled rubble porch to the left features a door opening with a four-centred lintel and a hollow niche on each side of the porch's interior, along with low ashlar benches, each adorned with a shield in relief. At the rear, there is a three-centred arch door opening in a chamfered stone surround with a plank door, accompanied by a small window in a chamfered stone surround to its right.

The hall is situated at a right angle to the left and is mostly in ruins. A large gabled wall remains to the east, featuring an eight-light chamfer-moulded stone-mullioned window that is mostly blocked. Above this window, there is a similarly moulded two-light stone-mullioned window. To the right of the gable, there is a four-centred arch door opening in a chamfered stone surround, with the remains of an angled label above it. Adjacent to the door is the remnant of a projecting rubble stack and a buttress with an offset. Inside the hall, there is a fireplace in a moulded four-centred stone surround, along with a similar reused fireplace in the east-west wing. The east end of this block features a five-bay queen-post roof.

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