Hartrow Manor

Hartrow Manor is a manor house that dates back to the late 16th century, with significant alterations made in the late 18th century, mid 19th century, and late 20th century. The main house was built around 1830, possibly by Richard Carver, and features a porch room that was likely added in the early 20th century. The exterior is rendered over random rubble with a hipped slate roof, overhanging eaves, and a stone stack that rises from the eaves on the left side. The building has a U-plan layout, with the entrance front facing south and the main house forming an L-shape, while the earlier wing includes an open hall on the west front.

The house is two storeys high and has a symmetrical facade with five bays, where the central bays project slightly forward. It features 12-pane sash windows, including a tripartite 12-pane sash window in the center supported by paired Doric columns, a wooden cornice, and 20th-century panelled double doors with a fanlight and sidelights. The right return has a four-bay garden front with similar window styles. To the left is a projecting gable end of the medieval-style hall wing, which has a steeply pitched asbestos slate roof and is constructed of lias and red sandstone random rubble, with a granite boulder plinth on the left return. The gable end displays a diamond pattern with a pair of lancet windows below a hood mould, along with five-light ovolo moulded mullioned windows and a large external stepped stack on the right.

Inside, there is a C16 hooded fireplace with decorative spandrels, along with reset C16, C17, and C19 panelling around the walls in the room to the left of the entrance, featuring reset angel corbels. Eight panels of painted glass from the demolished Minehead Theatre have been reset, and there is an oil fresco by Anthea Bennett from 1981 in the north room, which also includes a C19 wooden tracery panel. A large chamfered stone arch spans the north room on the garden front, and the west wing hall has a C20 arched braced roof. Notable interior details include fine decorative hinges and metalwork on a possible C17 door inscribed with "WAPSE" at the junction with the house. The extent of the original structure in the west wing prior to the 18th century alterations is unclear due to the extensive modifications made in a "Medieval" style.