Manor Farmhouse
MANOR FARMHOUSE, SHERSTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199052
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, SHERSTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199052
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, SHERSTON 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:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, SHERSTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Norton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 88528 84204
Details
NORTON SHERSTON ROAD ST 88 SE (south side) 5/64 Manor Farmhouse 12.12.51 GV II
Farmhouse. Early C17 core; south front altered and east wing added in the 1820s (WW/182- datestone on north wall). Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, render to south front and stone slate roofs with ashlar stacks. T-shaped plan with C17 tower-like section to south-west corner, former C17 service range to the north and 1820s block with double span roof to the east. South front covering south wall of original C17 section and extending along 1820s block: 2 storeys, 3 windows. Venetian windows to ground floor and 12-pane sashes to upper. Central doorway with Tuscan columns, open pediment, semi-circular fanlight and 6-panel door. Coved cornice and blocking course parapet developing into central pediment. North end wall of C17 block has two 3-light hollow- mould mullions and one single light to attic. Former service range has some double Roman tiling to north-west roof and C19 casement fenestration to east front. Interior. Huge inglenook fireplace to ground floor left-hand room in C17 block; 1820s staircase, doorcases and C17 wooden screen to head of winder staircase in attic. (June Badeni, Wiltshire Forefathers, 1960; N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975.)
Listing NGR: ST8852884204
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318061
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Badeni, J, Wiltshire Forefathers, (1960)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
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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