Maunsel House

Maunsel House, St Michael Church

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1177930
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1963
List Entry Name:: Maunsel House
Statutory Address:: Maunsel House, St Michael Church

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1177930
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1963
List Entry Name:: Maunsel House
Statutory Address 1:: Maunsel House, St Michael Church

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:: Maunsel House, St Michael Church

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: North Petherton
National Grid Reference:: ST 30445 30036

Details

ST 33 SW 8/109 NORTH PETHERTON St Michael Church Maunsel House

29.3.63

GV II* House. Late C14 or early C15, later C15, C16, early C17, late C18; 1827-8 by Richard Carver for General Slade; and late C19. Rubble with some render, freestone dressing; tile and fishscale roofs.

Irregular plan: late C14 or early C15 open hall facing east (now two storeys with attic and four first-floor windows); to its left, later C15 three-bay addition (now two storeys with attic), to the right C18 three-bay addition of two storeys and attic, two bays deep; two-storey C16 addition to rear of left-hand C15 block; three-storey C17 addition to rear of central hall; C19 addition to rear of C18 block and in free Gothic style.

Entrance (east) elevation; panelled door in gabled Gothic porch. Central and right-hand blocks have sashes with glazing bars, some with margin-lights; to first floor of central block three two-light leaded iron casements, two with stone mullions; these windows all in dressed stone quoined surrounds with hoodmoulds; four flat-roofed casement domers; traces of blocked former windows.

Left-hand block: two-light stone mullioned window with cusped lights and iron saddle and stanchion bars to ground floor right; above it a flat-arched, small-pane, three-light window; a blocked window to each floor of left bay. Roof has coped verges with bases for finials, two with iron finials inscribed: "A.S." and "T.B 1703" ; arcaded wooden bellcote to C19 addition with pyramidal lead roof and iron finial inscribed, "1862". Brick and ashlar stacks with moulded freestone caps, one a C17 addition original and having triple diagonally-set flues.

Rear: features of note include a three-light, hollow-moulded mullion window to each floor on right; a moulded cross-window to centre in later Gothick storeyed porch and another with hoodmould to left (C17) bay.

Interior: the C16 south west block has a basket-arched doorway on ground floor, coffered ceiling with large-scantling beams with ogee-moulded arrises, in the first floor room a C17 stone fireplace and moulded panelling with cornice, C18 panelled doors. C17 part has moulded panelling to first-floor room with fine fireplace surround having fluted Ionic pilasters, over-mantel panels and elaborate cornices; heavily-moulded coffered ceiling. Bathroom next to this room has late C19 bath with upright "shower" unit. In C15 left-hand block, three wooden spiral stairs from first floor to attic, one rising against the former end-wall of the open hall which has a window with wood mullions and stanchions; in the attic principal rafter roof trusses. The hall itself has a later C16 or early C17 first-floor corner fireplace and panelling in bathroom which has late C19 bath with lid; on the attic floor fine medieval roof with six closely-spaced, moulded, arch-braced trusses with short V struts, two tiers of chamfered and cusped arched windbraces and moulded butt purlins. The stair is C.18, with turned balusters. The C18 part has good fireplaces and in the north-east room full-height pilasters and elaborate frieze and cornice.

Listing NGR: ST3044530036

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 269371
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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