Grandon Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Country house.
Grandon Manor
- WRENN ID
- swift-pier-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Grandon Manor, Friggle Street, Selwood
- OS grid reference
- ST 800 464
- Coordinates
- 51.21649, -2.28681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grandon Manor is a country house dated 1679, constructed from coursed rubble with a stone dentil eaves cornice and a hipped stone slate roof. It features two 20th-century hipped roof dormers and two pairs of diagonally set ashlar stacks with moulded caps. The building is L-shaped with a symmetrical frontage, consisting of two storeys and attics across five bays. The central first-floor windows are two-light ogee-moulded stone-mullioned and transomed, while the remaining windows have been renewed in a matching wooden style, each with headed lights and weathered strings above. There are two-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows in two bays on the left and right returns, with leaded lights on the left side and brick-blocked windows on the right; the strings continue along the returns.
At the rear, there is a door opening in a projecting wing, featuring a moulded wooden surround and a studded plank door, along with a two-storey flat-roofed rubble porch. Above the door is a stone shield with raised letters stating "GIM 1679". A five-bay wing of lower height projects at right angles to the rear, containing two and three-light stone-mullioned windows with leaded lights, which is believed to be part of a house from the 15th century.
Inside, the manor includes a contemporary staircase with moulded newels featuring pendants and finials, and turned balusters. There is a fireplace on the first floor with a four-centred stone surround inscribed "16 GIM 71" and a moulded cornice shelf.
Local climate
Grandon Manor receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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