Hendford Manor

Hendford Manor is a large town house converted to offices around 1720, with later alterations on both the left and right sides. The building is constructed from Ham stone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with coped gables, although the chimney stacks have been removed. It has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a total of seven bays.

The main west facade includes a plinth with four blocked 2-light basement windows, rusticated quoins, band cill courses, and a moulded string at the first floor level. The central entrance features an 8-panel front door that is accessed by five steps, flanked by a projecting porch designed around 1900. This porch is supported by pairs of freely interpreted Corinthian columns on high plinths, which carry an open segmental pediment with a bulls-eye window underneath. The parapet is topped with two urns.

On the ground floor, the windows are simple cruiform wooden casements with leaded lights set in plain architraves. The first floor has seven 16-pane sash windows with medium glazing bars, also in simple architraves, and is topped by a dentilled cornice, with only the piers remaining of a presumed balustrade. There are three dormer windows with segmental lead-covered roofs in alternate bays, each featuring 16-pane casements.

To the right, there is a matching extension that is full height but appears to be only a single storey with a basement, likely built around 1860 and topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof. This extension has no windows on the sides, but the front includes a blocked basement window and a large triple window in a quasi-Venetian pattern, complete with a triangular pediment.

To the left, there is a simpler two-storey extension of uncertain date, made from local stone that is cut and squared, with a hipped Welsh slate roof. This extension has three bays of 3-light windows in simple raised architraved and mullioned surrounds, with barred windows. There is also a simple doorway with a flat stone hood to the right. The interior has not been inspected. Hendford Manor was built by the Hooper family around 1750 and was enlarged by Edwin Newman in 1840. It was purchased by Yeovil Borough Council in 1938.