GODMINSTER MANOR

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1251806
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: GODMINSTER MANOR
Statutory Address:: GODMINSTER MANOR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1251806
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: GODMINSTER MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: GODMINSTER MANOR

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:: GODMINSTER MANOR

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pitcombe
National Grid Reference:: ST6838033000

Details

ST63SE 5/237

PITCOMBE CP GODMINSTER Godminster Manor

24.3.61

GV II*

Manor House. C15 with major C18 and early C20 reshaping. Local stone cut and squared, with Doulting stone dressings, West front rendered; stone slate roof between coped gables, behind parapet on west side; octagonal stone chimney stacks with moulded caps. Solid "U"-plan with double roof to rear; 2 storeys 7 bays West front, a C18 addition. No plinth, plain ashlar pilasters, cornice plain low parapet without coping: 12-pane sash windows in architraved surrounds with moulded cills, the lower windows having alternately triangular and segmental closed pediments over; central door, of early C20 pattern, set in bolection mould surround with broken segmental pediment framing an urn, on ornate console brackets. South elevation of Tudor character, but C20 restoration; buttresses to bays; 4-centre arched light hollow chamfer mullioned windows with flat heads, incised spandrils, no labels; to left gable a 3-light below and two 2-light windows above; to single storey bays 1 and 2 are 3-light mullioned and transomed windows; cambered moulded arched doorway under rectangular label bay 3; to bay 4 splay against buttress, with small stair light window, then 3-light window below and 1-light above. East and North elevations of C20 character. Inside, entrance hall has C20 staircase incorporating some C18 barley-sugar twist balusters and some old handrailing; at head of stair a good plank and muntin partition, possibly relocated; small bolection mould fireplace in North West corner room; in south West corner room good C15 moulded beam and panel ceiling: Great Hall along South side damaged by fire c1924; part of charred earlier room survives but masked by replacement ceiling; fine C15 fireplace uncovered in early C20, with moulded 3-centre arch, 1.7 metre to crown, spanning 2.4 metres, with quatre-foil with shield panels in spandrils with other curvilinear decoration; in south wall, stone newel circular staircase, possibly C15. Little known of early history; became part of Ilchester estate, West elevation possibly by Nathaniel Ireson. The fireplace restored, after rediscovery, by A J Pictor, FRIBA, of Bruton, possibly architect for all the early C20 restoration or the post 1924 fire reparations. (VAG Report, Unpublished SRO, January l981).

Listing NGR: ST6838033000

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Legacy System number:: 434626
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in January, (1981)

Legal

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