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© Mr Derek C. J. Garrett
IoE Number:
262716
Location:
MANOR FARM HOUSE, PRIMROSE LANE (off)
MUDFORD, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Derek C. J. Garrett
Date Photographed:
15 February 2003
Date listed:
19 April 1961
Date of last amendment:
19 April 1961
Grade
II*
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ST51NE MUDFORD CP PRIMROSE LAKE (off)
UP MUDFORD
6/106 Manor Farm House
19.4.61
- II*
Manor house. 1630 with earlier and later parts. Ham stone ashlar, with
extensions in coursed rubble and Mudford brick; concrete imitation stone
slates, after fire damage circa 1915, stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys
with attic; South front of 4 bays with one-bay extension to bay-1, with
6+2-light hollow chamfer mullioned windows, and corbelled attic gable
with 4-light windows, and ball finials to crown and end of coping.
4-light hollow chamfer windows bays 2 and 4, and a 3-light to bay 3 over
a rebuilt doorway; boarded door with architrave and flat moulded hood on
console brackets, with cuboid sundial over similar to that of St Mary's
Church Mudford (qv) - door knocker, now removed, was dated 1730.
2-storey brick extension in English bond with 4-light mullioned window;
later extension in squared rubble to rear. On site of a cell used by
monks of Montacute Abbey, developed into house in 1630 by John Harbin;
at one time the Courthouse was in its grounds. (Francis Goulding,
Ashington, Chilton Cantelo, Mudford: the Story of Three Somerset
Parishes, 1982).