Former Priests House, About 10 Metres East of Wayford Manor House
FORMER PRIESTS HOUSE, ABOUT 10 METRES EAST OF WAYFORD MANOR HOUSE, PARK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1056167
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Priests House, About 10 Metres East of Wayford Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER PRIESTS HOUSE, ABOUT 10 METRES EAST OF WAYFORD MANOR HOUSE, PARK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1056167
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Priests House, About 10 Metres East of Wayford Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER PRIESTS HOUSE, ABOUT 10 METRES EAST OF WAYFORD MANOR HOUSE, PARK LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER PRIESTS HOUSE, ABOUT 10 METRES EAST OF WAYFORD MANOR HOUSE, PARK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wayford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4048606624
Details
WAYFORD CP PARK LANE (south side)
ST40NW
5/78 Former Priest's House. about 10
metres east of Wayford Manor House
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GV II*
Former parsonage, now part of the manor estate. C15 and later. Ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings; stone slate roof
to north wing and double Roman clay tiles to south crosswing, both roofs with stepped coped gables: rendered chimney
stacks. 'L'-plan, south elevation of 3 bays. Full-height buttresses between bays: 3- light hollow-chamfer mulioned
windows in wave-mould recesses without labels: boarded door in lower bay 1. Slit windows in attic of east gable, with
2-light mullioned window in east flank of north wing. North gable forms part of churchyard wall, and has a C15
ogee-arched cinquefoil-cusped window without label and 2 attic windows of slim single-lights, hollow-chamfer lights in
wave-mould recesses without label: between these a large panel with an eroded coat-of-arms set in an egg-and-tart mould
frame. West return flank of north wing has more 2-light mullioned windows. the upper with traces of ovolo-moulding, and
at north end a winding staircase from outside with triangular arched opening and boarded door in heavy cambered-arched
timber frame. Interior not accessible. Described in 1606 as a mansion with barn, garden and orchard; repaired 1827 for
an incoming curate; lived-in intermittently by parish priest until c1965. (VCH Somerset, Vol IV, l978, p74).
Listing NGR: ST4048606624
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262206
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 74
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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