Urchinwood Manor
URCHINWOOD MANOR, URCHINWOOD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1129209
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Urchinwood Manor
- Statutory Address:
- URCHINWOOD MANOR, URCHINWOOD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1129209
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Urchinwood Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- URCHINWOOD MANOR, URCHINWOOD 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:
- URCHINWOOD MANOR, URCHINWOOD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Congresbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 44735 63556
Details
ST 46 SW CONGRESBURY C.P. URCHINWOOD LANE (west side)
4/112 Urchinwood Manor 9.2.81 G.V. II*
Manor house. Dated 1620 (on porch) with mid C17 addition and C20 restoration. Colourwashed roughcast with stone openings, copings and double Roman tile roof to main range, pantiles to rear wings. U-shaped plan formed by 1620 L-shaped house with mid C17 south-west rear addition. Principal east front of 2 storeys, 4 bays with 3-light ovolo-moulded mullions with double ribbed faces and small leaded panes. 2nd window on ground floor to left-hand is a C20 insertion. Central gabled porch with moulded Tudor-arched entrance and similar inner doorway with 2-leaf plank door. 4 end rendered stacks. South facade has cross-mullion fenestration. Later 2-storey addition to left-hand of rear courtyard. Interior. Ground floor left-hand room has C17 imported panelling and plasterwork frieze of vine sprays and animal and figure panels; deeply chamfered beams. Ground floor right-hand room has further C17 panelling and a Tudor-arched fireplace. Inglenook fireplace in ground floor north-east room. The manor was built by the Young family. (R. Cooke, West Country Houses, 1957).
Listing NGR: ST4473563556
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33979
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cooke, R, West Country Houses, (1957)
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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