Description

ST 66 NE CORSTON WELLS ROAD (south side)

3/77 Manor Farmhouse

G.V. II*

Farmhouse. Probably c.1628, altered c.1690 and late C18. Coursed rubble
with freestone dressings; hipped slate roof. 2 storeys and attics.
9 windows: 2-light cross windows on ground floor, in bolection moulded
surrounds and under dripmoulds; glazing bar sash windows on first floor with
continuous moulded cornice over. Central panelled door in bolection moulded
surround and under fine shell hood on carved brackets. 2 rear wings with some
casement windows in ovolo moulded surrounds; rear stair tower with 2-light
cross windows. Interior. Ground floor north (left) room has bolection
moulded fire surround and shell-headed cupboard. Staircase of turned
balusters and moulded handrail. Rear door, now to bathroom, has ogee and
ovolo moulded surround with lozenges to the outer part. First floor north
(left) room: fielded panelling and enriched neo-classical fireplace. First
floor south-east (in rear wing) room: C17 plaster frieze of winged cherubs
alternating with cartouche; ogee moulded doorway. In an outbuilding
immediately to the south of the house is a 4-centre headed and ovolo moulded
door surround with the date 1628 carved on the spandrels - probably removed
from the house.

Listing NGR: ST6934665155

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531767

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]