Doulting Manor and Stables (Previously Listed As the Vicarage) is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1988. Manor.

Doulting Manor and Stables (Previously Listed As the Vicarage)

WRENN ID
other-chimney-ebony
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1988
Type
Manor
Address
Doulting Manor and Stables (Previously Listed As the Vicarage), Church Lane
OS grid reference
ST 645 431
Coordinates
51.18653, -2.50829
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Doulting Manor, originally the vicarage, is an early 18th-century manor house that was restored in the late 19th century. It features an ashlar stone front with grooved end pilasters, a sill band on the ground floor, a moulded cornice, and coursed and squared rubble on the sides. The building has coped verges and slate roofs, along with large Gothic-style ashlar stacks added in the 19th century. The symmetrical front has two storeys and an attic, with five bays and 12-pane sash windows in architraves on the first floor, featuring dropped keys. The ground floor windows are set in Gibbs surrounds with triple keys. The central door opening is also in a Gibbs surround, topped with a triangular pediment and a cartouche, leading to a half-glazed door and a late 18th-century ashlar porch that matches the style of the house, complete with a cornice and blocking course, and paired half-glazed doors.

The left side of the house displays Gothic-style stone-mullioned and transomed windows, a canted oriel, and two pairs of later French windows. At the rear, there is a stable block made of rubble with a slate roof and coped verges, featuring ashlar stacks and a finial. This stable block has two storeys and two bays, with a small opening and a pitching eye on the first floor, and two 2-light stone-mullioned windows with stopped labels on the ground floor. The pointed arch door opening has paired plank doors, along with a broad opening also fitted with plank doors. The attached walls have broad segmental openings leading to a carriage yard, and there are two reused medieval gargoyles on the wall to the left, with another gargoyle on the rear of the stable block. Inside the house, there are features from both the 18th and 19th centuries, making it a building of considerable quality.

Local climate

Doulting Manor and Stables (Previously Listed As the Vicarage) receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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