The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, GAUNT'S EARTHCOTT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128866
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, GAUNT'S EARTHCOTT LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-22
- Reference:
- IOE01/03802/21
- Rights:
- © Mr Cyril N. Chapman. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128866
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, GAUNT'S EARTHCOTT 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, GAUNT'S EARTHCOTT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Almondsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63512 84200
Details
ST 68 SW ALMONDSBURY GAUNT'S EARTHCOTT LANE (south side) Gaunt's Earthcott 12/28 21.10.52 The Manor House (formerly listed G.V. as Manor Farmhouse)
II*
Farmhouse, now restaurant and house. C16 core, dated also 1603 on front gable, south block dated TS/1680, with later alterations and additions. Coursed rubble with stone dressings, double Roman tiled roof with pantiles to rear, ball finials to gables except 2 east gables to front. L-plan with additions. 2 storeys and attic, 3 irregular gables to front, 3 windows, 2 ground and two 1st floor, C19 12-pane sashes in exposed boxes with drip moulds to left gable, all others 2 and 3-light casements under timber lintels, attic window to left gable with drip mould, right gable has plank door with strap hinges in plain wooden frame, large external stack above, 2-storey porch between 2 gables to left has 3-light casement with cornice at ist floor, opening with timber lintel and small square window at ground level, 2-panelled door in heavy frame, scroll and ovolo moulding and strap hinges; east side has 4-light casement at ground floor, 3-light at 1st and 2-light in attic, all with timber lintel, buttress to left and garderobe tower to right, west side has 2 gables, right has oval bull's eye in plain surround at ground floor, sundial at upper level and gable stack, left gable has 2 ground floor andtwoist floor C19 12-pane sashes with timber lintel, drip mould and bearing arch to all except 1st floor right, which is 3-light casement with drip mould. Rear has 2 gables, both with gable stacks, random one and 2-light casements, C20 door to centre, single storey additions to left and centre, both with double Roman tiled pitched roofs. Interior: Through passage, stair turret at rear with dog-leg stair with ovolo-moulded newel post, string and handrail, moulded and stopped beams and door-frames. (Sources: Hall, Linda : Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720. 1983).
Listing NGR: ST6351284200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 35122
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hall, L, City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Monograph Number 6 in The Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720, (1983)
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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