Cothay Manor
COTHAY MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1176185
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Cothay Manor
- Statutory Address:
- COTHAY MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1176185
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Cothay Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- COTHAY MANOR
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:
- COTHAY MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stawley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 08504 21301
Details
ST25SE STAWLEY CP COTHAY
6/24 Cothay Manor
25.1.56
GV I
Manor House. Circa 1480, enlarged early C17, restored and enlarged 1926-7. Red sandstone random rubble rendered in part, Ham stone dressings, steeply pitched plain tile roofs, coped verges gable ends, external stepped stone stacks right and left returns and on rear elevation. Diagonal buttresses North wing, stepped buttresses on hall elevation, raking buttresses right return on porch. "H"-plan typical medieval open hall layout gabled 2-storey porch attached to South cross wing with solar first floor North wing, asymmetrical "L"-shaped North and South wings early C20 incorporating C17 outbuildings. Main block, 2-storey and attic, 1:1:2:1 bays, all Tudor arched heads except for ground floor North wing, 2-light mullion window at South gable end, lancet. North gable end, first floor 3-light mullion window with hood mould, two 4-light mullioned and transomed windows lighting hall, 4-light mullioned and transomed windows, wooden mullioned and transomed window below, South wing 4-light mullion window. Gabled 2-storey porch, first floor Tudor arched head single light mullion window with hood mould, moulded arched opening below. C16 crested lead guttering on South wing. Rear elevation of North wing has unusual 3-light rose window in gable end. Interior: very fine collection of late C15 early C16 features in solar and hall, latter with unusual survival of high lath and plaster screen to galley with unglazed 4-light opening, moulded bressumer, plank and muntin screen below. Early C17 pannelling; carved overmantel and ornamented plasterwork in C17 dining room; anti-clockwise newel stairs to solar and inserted early C18 dog leg stair, in North wing addition. Outstanding example of late medieval hall house. (M Wood, The Medieval House, 1981; Country Life, October 22 and 29, 1927).
Listing NGR: ST0850421301
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270099
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wood, E, The English Medieval House, (1965)
Country Life in 22 October, (1927)
Country Life in 29 October, (1927)
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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