The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, LODES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060501
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, LODES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060501
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, LODES 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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, LODES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingston St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 22099 29753
Details
ST2229 KINGSTON ST MARY CP LODES LANE (West side)
12/126 The Manor House
25.2.55
GV II*
Manor house. Circa 1560, alteration dated 1702, extension on North front dated 1869, restored 1924. Red sandstone with Hma stone dressing, string course, quios, wooden cornice, steeply pitched state roof, partly covered with bitumen, coped verges and kneelers, trick stacks East gable end, South West gable end, and set back from junction with wing. 'L' plan, possibly original open hall with solar wing, now 3 cell and cross passage, dog-leg stair and parlour added on North front early C18, further additions to service area on North front 1869. South front: 2 storeys and attic, 2:3:1:2 bays, cross wing left, full height hipped roof porth third bay right, two hipped dormers flanking porch, 6 balls eye openings, left gable end, one below eaves end by left if block with 2-light depressed Tudor arch window below, 12-pace sash winnows first floor with 4-pane sash windows in gabled end, ground floor left window altered, paired 12-pane sash windows flanking porch with keystone cutting string course small square basement light end bay left, bolection moulded Ham stone doorcase inscribed Mary and Thomas Knight 1702; left, glazed double doors with diamond-paned light above, South East wall of wing 2 bays with 2 tiers of cruciform windows built with blocked lower iights, architrave running continuously to form label below first floor and bulls eye windows to basement, moulded lintels to ground floor windows which have many paned casements. Interior partially sighted; early C18 dog-leg stair with turned balusters, moulded rail. ornamentally carved string and panelled dado, early C18 raised and fielded panelling to parlour right of cross passage, plasterwork to stair ceiling and back parlour. The house was originally known as Lodes and was probably built for Robert Knight whose descendants subsequently altered it. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset 1956; SANHS Proceedings, Vol 83, 1939).
Listing NGR: ST2209929753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270637
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol. 83, (1939)
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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