Gerbestone Manor
GERBESTONE MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344582
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Gerbestone Manor
- Statutory Address:
- GERBESTONE MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344582
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Gerbestone Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- GERBESTONE 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:
- GERBESTONE MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Buckland
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 16183 19378
Details
ST11NE WEST BUCKLAND CP 9/197 25.1.56 Gerbstone Manor GV II* Manor house. Late C16, enlarged C17, comprehensively restored c1935 by Hubert Lidbetter for Mr and Mrs Lloyd Fox. Squared and coursed chert stone, Ham stone dressing, steeply pitched slate roofs, coped verges, stone stacks. U-plan with very shallow projecting gable ends on east front, projecting porch abutting south range. East front, 2 storeys, attic to south range, 1:1:2:1 bays, gabled outer bays, full height gabled porch to right of hall, 3 and 4-light chamfered stone mullioned windows under hoodmou1ds, leaded 2-light window in porch, moulded ogee headed outer doorway, square headed chamfered inner doorway, early door. South front: 2:1:2 bays, 2-light window in gabled centre, 5-light window below, 3-light to right, left 3-light window end bay, moulded Tudor arch headed doorway adjoining centre bay, small square stair light to left. Interior: upper storey not seen, plank and muntin screen to cross passage, good moulded depressed Tudor arch head to fireplace in hall, originally with stair turret projection to right, 8-panel steeply chamfered compartment ceiling with exposed joists, chamfered beams in other rooms but extensively renewed. Interesting as an example of a high quality 1930s restoration of a C16 vernacular building. (Country Life, November 1935).
Listing NGR: ST1618319378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271139
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in November, (1935)
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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