NORTH PERROTT MANOR HOUSE (PERROTT HILL SCHOOL)

NORTH PERROTT MANOR HOUSE, WILLIS'S LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1175931
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: NORTH PERROTT MANOR HOUSE (PERROTT HILL SCHOOL)
Statutory Address:: NORTH PERROTT MANOR HOUSE, WILLIS'S LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1175931
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: NORTH PERROTT MANOR HOUSE (PERROTT HILL SCHOOL)
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH PERROTT MANOR HOUSE, WILLIS'S LANE
Statutory Address 2:: PERROTT HILL SCHOOL, WILLIS'S LANE

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:: NORTH PERROTT MANOR HOUSE, WILLIS'S LANE
Statutory Address:: PERROTT HILL SCHOOL, WILLIS'S LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: North Perrott
National Grid Reference:: ST 46755 09645

Details

ST40NE NORTH PERROTT CP WILLIS'S LANE (South side, off)

6/203 North Perrott Manor House (Perrott Hill School)

GV II* Former manor house, now a private school. 1877, by T.H. Wyatt, architect, for P.M. Hoskyns. Ham stone ashlar; plain clay tiled roofs, mostly between or behind moulded coped gables; ashlar chimney stacks. In a late C16 style. 'L'- plan; 2 storeys with attics: north-west elevation 10 bays, with north-west projecting wing. Plinth, string course: in bays 1 to 7 sash windows with transomes and moulded reveals: bay 4 has a 4-light double transomed king-mullioned stair window: windows to bays 8, 9 and return wing have secondary glazing bars. To bay 2 protecting 2-storey porch having open seal-circular archway flanked by paired Doric columns, carved band above, then 4-light windows flanked by paired Ionic columns, ornamental parapet. Large attic gables to bays 1/2, and 3/4, small gable bays 6/7. On south-east side a single-storey orangery with C16 style perforated parapet. South east elevation of 5 gabled bays, with 2 segmental bay windows, 2-storey bay 1 and single-storey bay 4 added in 1900; ground floor bay 2 has a 3-arched loggia. Late C20 buildings added on north-west corner, not of special interest. Interiors of high quality and little altered; moulded plaster ceilings, wall panelling, fine staircase and good joinery generally: some fine timber and marble chimneypieces, one featuring a painting. Orangery roof shattered by wartime bomb damage, and replaced by flat roof, (Pevsner, N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958; In RIBA Drawings Collection there is a House at Crewkerne for Mr Hoskins by T.H. Wyatt and David Brandon but this partnership was dissolved by 1851).

Listing NGR: ST4675509645

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Legacy System number:: 262453
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)

Legal

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