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Maperton House

A Grade II* Listed Building in Maperton, Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.0342 / 51°2'3"N

Longitude: -2.4694 / 2°28'9"W

OS Eastings: 367184

OS Northings: 126201

OS Grid: ST671262

Mapcode National: GBR MX.H067

Mapcode Global: FRA 56QD.1S8

Plus Code: 9C3V2GMJ+M7

Entry Name: Maperton House

Listing Date: 24 March 1961

Last Amended: 18 March 1986

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1177942

English Heritage Legacy ID: 262066

ID on this website: 101177942

Location: Maperton, Somerset, BA9

County: Somerset

District: South Somerset

Civil Parish: Maperton

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


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MAPERTON CP
MAPERTON VILLAGE
Maperton House
(previously listed as Manor House)

24.3.61

GV
II*

Large detached house, on site of manor house. Mostly 1802 and 1876, but incorporating some C18 fragments. Ham stone ashlar; plain clay tile roofs behind parapets, some coped gables with ball finials; stone chimney stacks. 'L' plan with additions; 2 storeys with attics and 3 storeys. West entrance elevation of 6 bays; bays 1 and 2 of 3 storeys, with separate gables, upper part of 1876 date; plain sash windows in ornamental surrounds to bay 1 and bay 2 gable; remaining windows this side 12-pane sashes, paired to lower bay 2; bays 5 and 6 project for 2 bays, the end of bay 5 being angled, and contains an open porch with Doric columns in antis protecting heavy studded and panelled doors; bay 6 has a full height angled bay window with single sash each level each face. South elevation of 7 bays, of which the centre bay is 3-storey; plinth, pilasters to corner and flanking centre bay, cornice, plain parapet with urns over pilasters, probably all 1802; 12-pane sash windows in architraves, with added sidelights to centre bay; to ground floor centre bay are French doors set under a C19 open iron latticework porch with lead-covered bell-hip roof; to south-east corner a 1876 single-storey orangery, built on a curve, and recently restored. At east end of north elevation, ground floor level, are two 4-light hollow-chamfer mullioned windows of late C18, and inside one doorway corresponds with this date.
Many good early C19 features inside the house, which has been little altered, except by a late C20 addition on east side and demolition of some work on north side.


Listing NGR: ST6718426201

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