Godminster Manor
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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434626
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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