GAULDEN MANOR

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1307623
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: GAULDEN MANOR
Statutory Address:: GAULDEN MANOR

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Date:: 2005-03-02
Reference:: IOE01/14039/01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1307623
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: GAULDEN MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: GAULDEN 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:: GAULDEN MANOR

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tolland
National Grid Reference:: ST 11084 31359

Details

ST13SW TOLLAND CP

2/49 Gaulden Manor (Previously listed as Gaulden Farmhouse 25.2.55 - II*

House. C16 with C17 alterations. Red sandstone random rubble masonry, part rendered, slate roof, brick stacks. 2 storeys, main block gabled porch with hall to right, longer, lower service wing to left with catslide roof over outer bay. Irregularly placed fenestration, right 3-light mullioned window, first floor, six light below, four light in porch gable with pair of 3 light mullions 1st floor left, ground floor 4 light with ovolo mouldings. Square headed moulded door frame to porch with fine C16 12-panel framed door inside. Interior: the feature of this house is the exuberant plaster decoration of circa 1660. Hall, 3 moulded ceiling panels. Centre with pendant, outer with proverbs, figures, and floral decoration, frieze with scenes from the Old Testament, overmantel with figures flanking coats of arms and strapwork. 4-centred arch fireplace, to right C17 carved partition separates the "Chapel" with moulded ceiling compartments and frieze of Raphaelesque strapwork. Plasterwork overmantel in Great Chamber upstairs, 4-centred arch fireplace, coved ceiling. Jacobean dog-leg staircase. (Country Life, p 252-8, September 9, 1933; SANHS Proceedings, p 70-87 XXIII; p 113-4 No 116).

Listing NGR: ST1108431359

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Legacy System number:: 270125
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society' in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 116, (), 113-4
'Country Life' in 9 September, (1933), 252-8
'Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society' in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, (), 70-87

Legal

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