THE MANOR HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE WITH GATE AND RAILINGS ENCLOSING FORECOURT

THE MANOR HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE WITH GATE AND RAILINGS ENCLOSING FORECOURT, POST OFFICE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249249
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: THE MANOR HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE WITH GATE AND RAILINGS ENCLOSING FORECOURT
Statutory Address:: THE MANOR HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE WITH GATE AND RAILINGS ENCLOSING FORECOURT, POST OFFICE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249249
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: THE MANOR HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE WITH GATE AND RAILINGS ENCLOSING FORECOURT
Statutory Address 1:: THE MANOR HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE WITH GATE AND RAILINGS ENCLOSING FORECOURT, POST OFFICE 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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Statutory Address:: THE MANOR HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE WITH GATE AND RAILINGS ENCLOSING FORECOURT, POST OFFICE LANE

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tatworth and Forton
National Grid Reference:: ST3295005067

Details

ST320S TATWORTH AND FORTON CP POST OFFICE LANE (west side) SOUTH CHARD

12/99 The Manor house and Manor Cottage with gate andrailings enclosing forecourt (formerly listed as Manor House in the Civil Parish of Chard) 4.2.58

- II

Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings, with railings and gate. Possibly C16, enlarged one bay north possibly early-mid C19 when porch added, refenestrated late C19-early C20. Roughcast with retains of render grooved as ashlar and quoins in north-east corner of facade, exposed rubble north gable end, rubble plinth, thatched roof half-hipped to left, brick stack between first and second bays right at original north gable end of building, ashlar stack with coved cornice to left of through passage. Plan: 3-cell and cross passage extended one bay north. East front; one and a half storeys, 4:1 bays 3-light dormer left, tall 3-light dormer, -light casement set below eaves over entrance, 3-light dormer to right, C20 window in extension, ground floor two 3-light windows left and one right of entrance, C20 window in extension with flat roofed box porch of corrugated sheeting to right, t20 door; Rain entrance flat mated columnar porch with turned columns, moulded cornice, fretted apron and panelled soffit, latter in very poor condition at title of survey (November 1985), Interior not seen, probably contains features of interest. Railings, mid C19 signed Smith, Chard. Cast iron set in cast-iron coping of dwarf wall with upper course of brickwork, random rubble chert below. Railings returned around forecourt to building with entrances to warehouses and extension. Enriched heads to uprights, curved supports and cast-iron gatepiers, 2 single cast-iron gates.

Listing NGR: ST3295005067

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Legacy System:: LBS

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