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© Mrs Sue Durant LRPS
IoE Number:
262066
Location:
MANOR HOUSE,
MAPERTON, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mrs Sue Durant LRPS
Date Photographed:
30 August 2003
Date listed:
24 March 1961
Date of last amendment:
18 March 1986
Grade
II*
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MAPERTON CP
ST62NE MAPERTON VILLAGE
4/133
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.