MANOR HOUSE

MANOR HOUSE, WEST COMPTON LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1058822
Date first listed:: 02-Jun-1961
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE, WEST COMPTON LANE

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Date:: 2001-11-01
Reference:: IOE01/05746/16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1058822
Date first listed:: 02-Jun-1961
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR HOUSE, WEST COMPTON LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE, WEST COMPTON LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pilton
National Grid Reference:: ST 59543 42178

Details

ST54SE PILTON CP WEST COMPTON LANE (North side) WEST COMPTON 4/164 Manor House (Previously listed as Manor Farmhouse including gatepiers to forecourt) 2.6.61

GV II*

(Incorrectly shown on OS map as Manor Farm). Manor house, C16, substantial C17 alterations, further later minor alterations. Coursed and squared rubble, freestone dressings, triple Roman tile roof, coped verges with bases for finials, one with an octagonal finial, one with an oblong sundial with a capping, 3 ashlar and a single large brick stack, 2 on small projecting gables. Open hall house, later modified to a cross passage plan, further added wings. Two storeys and attics, 1:1:1:1 bays, the first in a projecting wing under a front facing gable, second and fourth bays with first floor windows under front facing gables. Two, 3 and 4-light ovolo moulded stone mullioned widows under stopped labels; blank stone plaque in a moulded stone surround to extreme right gable face; 3-light mullioned window to right to a basement, stopped label. Door opening to third bay from left in an eared and moulded stone architrave under a label, C19 6-panelled door, top 2 panels glazed. Interior with a moulded cross beamed ceiling with rich ornamental plasterwork; dog leg staircase with pierced pendants and caps to the newel posts. Many C17 2-panelled doors thoughout; 2 C17 fireplaces to first floor in dressed stone surrounds, one with a 4-centred head, one bolection moulded with a cornice shelf. (VAG report, unpublished SRO, January 1984).

Listing NGR: ST5954342178

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Legacy System number:: 267638
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in January, (1984)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.