THE MANOR HOUSE

THE MANOR HOUSE, THE GREEN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1264755
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: THE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE MANOR HOUSE, THE GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1264755
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: THE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE MANOR HOUSE, THE GREEN

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:: THE MANOR HOUSE, THE GREEN

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Long Sutton
National Grid Reference:: ST 46922 25246

Details

LONG SUTTON CP THE GREEN (south side) ST4628 12/154 The Manor House (formerly listed as Manor Farm House) 17.4.59 GV II*

Detached House. Probably late C15, reshaped in C17, C18 and C19. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; plain clay tile roofs over stone slate base courses, between coped gables; brick chimney stacks. Complex plan: north elevation of 2 storeys, 6 bays, of which bays 2 and 6 are gabled projecting wings and bay 4 a single-storey lean-to porch. Mostly hollow chamfer mullioned windows of 2 or 3 lights, with square labels; but lower bays 5 and 6 have early C18 segmental arched architraved openings, bay 5 with a 12-pane sash window and bay 6 with French doors; open porch has semi-circular arch with keystone and moulded imposts, with an early boarded door with plain opening inside; gable wall to bay 2 has only a boarded door, but two 3-light mullioned windows in west return wall, and stone stairs to first floor level on the east return; bay 1 has an outshut and moulded doorway with flat arch. The east gable has further mullioned windows, one blocked, with small square attic window. The south elevation of 5 bays, of which bays 1 to 3 are early C19 remodelling, with 16-pane sash windows in plain openings under stone lintols, and an open porch to bay 2 of non-classical detail; these bays marked by end pilasters: moulded cambered arched doorway between bays 3 and 4; bay 4 has 3-light chamfer mullioned windows with flat head lights below and 4-centre arched lights with incised spandrils above, these last repeated in bay 5, all with labels. Formerly cross-passage plan, now modified, interior contains moulded cambered arched fireplaces, and some C18 fielded panelling to the main inner room, as well as two staircases, one in a turret, one spiral in a gable: roof replaced c1800. (VAG Report, SRO Unpublished 1976) Some early C16 stained glass iron the Church inside the house: the house, formerly known as Sutton Valence Manor, recorded by 1538 (VCH, vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4692225246

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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.