Maperton House
MAPERTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177942
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Maperton House
- Statutory Address:
- MAPERTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177942
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Maperton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAPERTON HOUSE
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:
- MAPERTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Maperton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6718426201
Details
ST62NE
4/133
MAPERTON CP
MAPERTON VILLAGE
Maperton House
(previously listed as Manor House)
24.3.61
GV
II*
Large detached house, on site of manor house. Mostly 1802 and 1876, but incorporating some C18 fragments. Ham stone ashlar; plain clay tile roofs behind parapets, some coped gables with ball finials; stone chimney stacks. 'L' plan with additions; 2 storeys with attics and 3 storeys. West entrance elevation of 6 bays; bays 1 and 2 of 3 storeys, with separate gables, upper part of 1876 date; plain sash windows in ornamental surrounds to bay 1 and bay 2 gable; remaining windows this side 12-pane sashes, paired to lower bay 2; bays 5 and 6 project for 2 bays, the end of bay 5 being angled, and contains an open porch with Doric columns in antis protecting heavy studded and panelled doors; bay 6 has a full height angled bay window with single sash each level each face. South elevation of 7 bays, of which the centre bay is 3-storey; plinth, pilasters to corner and flanking centre bay, cornice, plain parapet with urns over pilasters, probably all 1802; 12-pane sash windows in architraves, with added sidelights to centre bay; to ground floor centre bay are French doors set under a C19 open iron latticework porch with lead-covered bell-hip roof; to south-east corner a 1876 single-storey orangery, built on a curve, and recently restored. At east end of north elevation, ground floor level, are two 4-light hollow-chamfer mullioned windows of late C18, and inside one doorway corresponds with this date.
Many good early C19 features inside the house, which has been little altered, except by a late C20 addition on east side and demolition of some work on north side.
Listing NGR: ST6718426201
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262066
- 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.
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