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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
Tagged with: House
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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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