Former Halse Manor Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Country house, hospital.
Former Halse Manor Hospital
- WRENN ID
- tilted-pewter-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Country house, hospital
- Address
- Former Halse Manor Hospital, TA4 3AE
- OS grid reference
- ST 139 279
- Coordinates
- 51.04439, -3.22921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Halse Manor Hospital is a country house that was used as a hospital at the time of listing. It dates from the 17th century, was enlarged in the mid-18th century, and underwent remodeling in the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. The building is constructed of red sandstone random rubble, featuring quoin strips that distinguish the central bay from the outer bays and the extension to the left. A dentil-moulded cornice creates a shallow pediment over the central bay, and the slate roof has coped verges, with the roof of the left-hand bay concealed behind a parapet and brick stacks on either side.
The main facade faces east and includes a one-bay extension at the south end, which is part of the "U"-shaped south facade that marks the site of the original house. The structure is two stories tall and has six bays, with sash windows, rusticated voussoirs, two round-headed dormers, and a lunette window in the pediment. The first-floor window below has shouldered surrounds, while the ground floor features a central doorway flanked by canted bay windows with sandstone plinths and dentil mouldings. The gabled porch has console brackets at the angles and pilasters, and it contains 19th-century double doors with marginal glazing bars and partly colored glass, approached by a flight of five steps.
Local climate
Former Halse Manor Hospital receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 37 transactions since 1996
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