THE OLD RECTORY AND BEAUCHAMP MANOR

BEAUCHAMP MANOR, GREAT LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237306
Date first listed:: 16-May-1979
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY AND BEAUCHAMP MANOR
Statutory Address:: BEAUCHAMP MANOR, GREAT LANE

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Date:: 2005-02-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237306
Date first listed:: 16-May-1979
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY AND BEAUCHAMP MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: BEAUCHAMP MANOR, GREAT LANE
Statutory Address 2:: THE OLD RECTORY, GREAT LANE

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:: BEAUCHAMP MANOR, GREAT LANE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY, GREAT LANE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shepton Beauchamp
National Grid Reference:: ST 40200 17147

Details

ST41NW SHEPTON BEAUCHAMP CP GREAT LANE (South side)

6/53 The Old Rectory and Beauchamp Manor

16.5.79

GV II

Rectory, now divided into 2 dwellings. 1873 by R.W. Drew of London for V.S.S Coles. Coursed and squared rubble with freestone dressings, 'tile roofs, pennant dated 1873, tall stone stacks. High Victorian Tudor and neo-Early English style, roughly a T-plan, "rather plain and gaunt with a central hall for meals, and an oratory (to east) without an altar where the "lesser hours" are said and confessions sometimes heard". Two storeys and attic, taller gabled cross-wing to north. Projecting south wing with hipped roof, half-hipped dormers over first floor windows. Irregular windows of one, 2 and 3-lights, some with transoms and some with trefoiled heads, some lights with sash windows, some lights with iron casements. East front with projecting oratory and adjacent stair-turret with conical roof; foiled oculus to gable with buttress below, some stained glass. The principal door opening to north, moulted pointed-arch freestone surround, paired panelled doors. Interior with cantilevered staircase, turned newels. (VCH, vol IV, 1978).

Listing NGR: ST4020017147

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Legacy System number:: 428531
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978)

Legal

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