MANOR HOUSE

MANOR HOUSE, BISHOPS HULL HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1060535
Date first listed:: 02-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE, BISHOPS HULL HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1060535
Date first listed:: 02-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR HOUSE, BISHOPS HULL HILL

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, BISHOPS HULL HILL

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bishop's Hull
National Grid Reference:: ST 20561 24813

Details

ST2024 BISHOP'S HULL CP BISHOP'S HULL HILL (North side)

13/5 Manor House

2.2.55

GV II*

Manor house. Dated 1586, mid C19 addition and internal alterations, restored 1901. Roughcast over rubble, quoins, chamfered plinth, coped verges, slate roofs, stone stacks rising on right return, brick stacks gable ends. E-plan facing South with small C19 addition on West front, a long service wing in North East corner. Two and a half storeys, symmetrical front, ovolo moulded mullions, gabled central 4 storey porch, coped verges, kneelers, 3-light mullioned windows under hood moulds, gabled 3-light dormers flanking porch with 4-light mullioned and transomed windows below, all with hoodmoulds, two 3-light mullioned and transomed windows in re-entrant angles, gable ends lit by paired lights under single hoodmoulds. Entrance through semi-circular moulded opening in ashlar Has stone porch, fluted Ionic columns on low plinths with dentil moulded cornice and date 1586 in keystone of arch. Above square plaque with scalloped frame containing the coat of arms of George Farewell. Plastered ceiling, round headed arch opening, moulded jambs, decorative spandrels and outstanding early C17 door. Single storey, irregularly shaped, top lit C19 addition on West front with 3-light Tudor arch headed casements and C19 door; long East front with two gabled dormers, stone stacks rising between and C17 style moulded door; long brick service wing to North with some early C19 leaded iron casements. Interior: extensively altered C19 and early/mid C20, and contains few original features apart from a couple of small fireplaces, some plasterwork details in first floor room, and original roof, an unusual combination of tie beams and arch braced rafters. C19 ribbed plaster ceilings in billiard room. C16 extension and in another room panelling imported C19, plank and muntin screen with painted arch doorway imported mid C20. Externally the building appears much as it was when built with a very fine door and some of the earliest ovolo moulded mullioned windows in the West Country. In poor condition at time of survey (March 1984). (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, May 1981; SANHS Proceedings, Vol 50, 1912).

Listing NGR: ST2056124813

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 270512
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society' in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, , Vol. 50, (1912)
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in May, (1981)

Legal

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