The Manor House Including Studio and Workshop Adjoining to North

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CLYST HYDON ST 00 SW 2/24 The Manor House including studio and workshop adjoining to north - GV II Large house. Circa 1830 with some late C19 improvements, and late C19 extensions. Plastered brick and local stone rubble;stone rubble and brick stacks with plastered chimneyshafts; slate roofs. Plan: double pile house facing south-east. It is 2 rooms wide. The left front room has a front lateral and the smaller right room has an axial stack backing onto the cross passage between the 2 rooms. This passage leads to an axial passage between the front and back rooms and which contains 2 straight flight staircases. There are 3 rear rooms including the kitchen with an axial stack backing onto the small right rear room and the principal parlour, the rear left room, which projects further to rear and it has a rear end stack. In the late C19 a brick entertainments or billiard room was built onto the north corner and soon after a village hall was built behind that. Circa 1980 the entertainments/billiard room was floored and converted to an office and the former village hall was converted to a workshop. The main house is 2 storeys and there are lean-to service outshots across the north- east side. Exterior: asymmetrical 4-window front, mostly 12-pane sashes but including a ground floor canted bay window right of centre in which the front contains a tripartite sash with a central 15-pane sash. The front doorway is slightly right of centre and it contains a French window with an overlight containing a pattern of coloured glass. Deep eaves are carried on pairs of shaped brackets. The south-west garden front has a 3:2:3 - window front of mostly 12-pane sashes. The 3-window sections are in full height canted bays. The axial passage doorway is right of centre and it contains a part-glazed C19 door. The back of the main block contains a number of C19 casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass to the service rooms and 12-pane sashes to the higher status rooms. The former entertainment/billiard room and village hall project from the northern corner and face west. Next to the house is the entertainment/billiard room which is a tall brick building including bands of cream coloured brick with nailhead ornamentation. Its front projects forward and is semi-hexagonal with buttresses on the corners. Each front faces contains an oculus window high in the wall and the roof is hipped with a terracotta finial at the apex. The former village hall is also brick and has a 2-window front with buttresses between; full height mullion- and-transom window. Its roof is gable-ended to left and hipped to right. Interior: contains a great deal of original joinery and other detail. It has been little modernised in the C20. The best room is the large principal parlour which has a marble chimneypiece and ornamental plaster cornices and ceiling rose. The Manor with its grounds, the Manor Lodge (q.v) and the boundary wall (q.v) form an important group on the eastern approach to the village.

Listing NGR: ST0365401491

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