West Newton Manor
WEST NEWTON MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344642
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- West Newton Manor
- Statutory Address:
- WEST NEWTON MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344642
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West Newton Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST NEWTON 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:
- WEST NEWTON MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Petherton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 28897 29140
Details
ST22NE NORTH PETHERTON CP
WEST NEWTON
9/114 West Newton Manor (previously listed as Manor Farmhouse) 3.2.81 II*
(Marked on OS map as Manor Farm). Circa 1346 core; remodelled with additions C17 for Cheek family; late C19 alteration and addition. Colourwashed random rubble, slate roof, large brick stacks, one on frontage on a projecting base. Interior with remains of an aisled hall; irregular plan and elevations. Two storeys, 1:1:1:1 bays, 3, 4 and 5-light wooden-mullioned windows, ovolo-moulded, some C17, some C19 in cambered head reveals; left bay in C19 wing under a front- facing gable; 3 windows to first floor in gabled half-dormers, face of each with wood and plaster enrichment. Two storey gabled porch to third bay, 5-light wooden-mullioned window to first floor, ground floor opening in a moulded 4-centred head wooden architrave with incised lettering:- "H.C.K. (for Henry and Katherine Cheek) 1622", inner door opening with a studded 2-panelled door. Gabled ashlar bellcote to right return. Returns and rear show much C19 alteration. Some 2-light mullioned windows in left return. Interior with remains of aisle posts; timber- framed partitioning; C17 staircase; further features (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, March l978; Proceedings of SANHS, 1978).
Listing NGR: ST2889729140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269376
- 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, (1978)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in March, (1978)
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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