Hendford Manor
HENDFORD MANOR, HENDFORD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1296434
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Hendford Manor
- Statutory Address:
- HENDFORD MANOR, HENDFORD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1296434
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Hendford Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENDFORD MANOR, HENDFORD
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:
- HENDFORD MANOR, HENDFORD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5543015724
Details
ST5515NW
7/28
YEOVIL CP HENDFORD (East side)
Hendford Manor
8.9.70
GV II*
Large town house converted to offices of c1720 with later alterations to
left-hand and right-hand (projecting). (Vacant Jan. 1983). Ham stone ashlar with
Welsh slate roof between coped gables, chimney stacks removed. 2-storeys with
attic and basement of 7 bays: the main West facade has plinth (with four 2-light
basement windows now blocked, rusticated quoins, band cill courses and moulded
string at first floor level. Central 8-panel front door (up 5 steps) with
projecting porch of c1900 design, using pairs of freely interpreted Corinthian
columns on high plinths carrying open segmental pediment, with bulls-eye window
under: parapet crowned with 2 urns: ground floor windows simple cruiform wooden
casements with leaded lights set in plain architraves; first floor has seven
16-pane sashes with medium glazing bars, in simple architraves: dentilled
cornice above, with the piers only remaining of a (presumed) balustrade.
3-dormer windows with segmental lead covered roofs to alternate bays-having
16-pane casements. To right-hand a matching extension of full height but
apparently only single storey with basement possibly c1860, with hipped Welsh
slate roof. No windows to sides, but to front a blocked basement window and a
large triple window in quasi-Venetian pattern, with triangular pediment. To
left- hand a plainer 2-storey extension, of uncertain date of local stone cut
and squared, with Welsh slate hipped roof having 3-bays of 3-light windows in
simple raised architraved and mullioned surrounds; barred windows: to the right
a simple doorway with flat stone hood. Interior not inspected. Built by Hooper
family c1750 (Solicitors): enlarged by Edwin Newman in 1840, purchased by Yeovil
Borough Council 1938.
Listing NGR: ST5543015724
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261364
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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