THE MANOR HOUSE

THE MANOR HOUSE, WEST YATTON LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1300423
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:: THE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE MANOR HOUSE, WEST YATTON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1300423
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:: THE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE MANOR HOUSE, WEST YATTON 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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE MANOR HOUSE, WEST YATTON LANE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Yatton Keynell
National Grid Reference:: ST 86445 76279

Details

YATTON KEYNELL WEST YATTON LANE ST 87 NE 3/549 The Manor House 20.12.60

GV II*

Manor House, dated 1659, possibly with earlier work to rear wing, rubble stone with ashlar dressings and stone tiled roofs. Main range 2 and a half storeys with coped south gable and finial, ridge stack, north end stack and west end outside stack to rear wing. 3- window range east front with 3 coped dormer gables and finials, flush quoins andovblo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds. 3 attic 3-light windows, main floors left and right have 3-light mullion and transom first floor windows and 4-light ground floor windows with king-mullions. Fine projecting 2-storey central porch with cornice and scrolled pediment with finial. Date SR 1659 carved. Scrolled half-pediments to sides with finial motif in relief on main wallface. First floor 3-light mullion and transom window, centre main light with pointed head subdividing centre top- light in two. Cornice below with centre keystone and Tudor-arched moulded doorway. Moulded Tudor-arched inner doorcase with fine C17 panelled door. South end gable has 3-light attic window, 4-light first floor window with hoodmould and ground floor 4-light window with king-mullion and hoodmould. fling to left has first floor C20 single light and 4-light window over ground floor C18 3-light flush cyma-moulded window, all with hoodmoulds. Similar C18 window to wing north side and early C17 3-light recessed hollow moulded window with hoodmould above. West end wall is rough rendered with small square upper light. Centre of west front is gabled stair tower with 2-light hoodmoulded window to each floor, hollow-moulded to ground floor. To left, set back, gabled one window range similar to main east front, ground floor 4-light window is C20 replacement. To north, 2-storey range with ridge stack with C20 ovolo-moulded mullion windows to east and west. West side has 2 chamfered flush doorcases, possibly C18, one with C20 carved arms over. Interior: fine Cl7 stone fireplaces to ground floor south room, first floor south and south west, and exceptional carved fireplace to first floor north, fluted pilasters, stone shelf above and Tudor-arched opening with S and R carved in spandrels. Ground floor panelled doors in scratch-moulded doorcases, one with moulded panels over and carved monogram to jamb. Ground floor south west room has C18 curved-head corner cupboard and 2 beams with run-out stops to chamfer. Fine C17 closed string stair with heavy moulded rail, square newels with caps and pendants and carved balusters with raking Ionic-type capitals. The house belonged to the Snell family from the early C17.

Listing NGR: ST8644576279

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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.