Shapwick Manor
SHAPWICK MANOR, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190512
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Shapwick Manor
- Statutory Address:
- SHAPWICK MANOR, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190512
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Shapwick Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHAPWICK MANOR, STATION ROAD
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:
- SHAPWICK MANOR, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shapwick
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 41744 38439
Details
ST43NW SHAPWICK CP STATION ROAD (West sidei
2/27 Shapwick Manor (formerly listed as Down House)
29.3.63
GV II*
Manor house, now school. Medieval, for Almoner of Glastonbury Abbey; rebuilt early C17 for Bull family, the residence in mid C17 of Henry Bull, Barrister of the Middle Temple and M.P. for Somerset; restored and extended mid C19, probably for Strangways family. Colourwashed coursed and squared rubble some render to left return, slate roofs, coped verges with bases for finials, coursed and squared rubble stacks, some with moulded caps. Elizabethan asymmetrical frontage. Two storeys, 3:1:2 bays, windows to first floor under front facing gables; left 3 bays with 4-light reserved chamfer stone- mullioned windows; C19 casement to each light with horizontal glazing bars, stopped labels; right 2 bays with 2, 3 and 4-light stone mullioned windows, stopped labels, that to left of first floor with a low pedimented gable. Projecting 2-storeyed gabled porch to centre; 2-light reserved chamfer stone-mullioned window to first floor; hollow-moulded segmental headed outer door opening in a dressed stone surround. Three 2-stage buttresses between left 3 bays. Left return of 2:3:1 bays, some ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows, stopped labels; C19 5-light canted bay. Glazed verandah on slender iron supports. Interior much remodelled mid C19 in a Jacobean style, of particular note 2 fireplaces in carved wooden mantelpieces with busts; C18 panelled room to left of ground floor; C18 staircase; C18 strongroom with cast-iron door.
Listing NGR: ST4174438439
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269255
- 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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