Description

SX 8261 BERRY POMEROY

11/17 Berry Manor House, Berry Barton Farmhouse and Berry Barton (formerly listed as Berry House) 9.2.61 GV II

Manor house with ranges on four sides of a courtyard, now three separate houses situated immediately north of the Church of St Mary. Berry Manor House situated on south and east sides, circa C16/C17 remodelled in C18 and early C19. Rendered stone rubble. Slate roof with gabled ends and overhanging bracketed eaves. Roof at right hand (north-east) end is lower and hipped. Two storeys. Six window range to south. Moulded stone mullion three-light windows with hoodmoulds and leaded panes. The ground floor windows have been replaced in C18 by large sashes, also with hoodmoulds. Right hand fielded panel door with rectangular fanlight and C19 wooden trellis porch. Rendered ridge chimney stacks. Long wing at rear to north-east forming L-shaped plan with large rendered external chimney stack on east side with stair projection to right hand side and doorway on left hand side with old leaded casement above. Berry Barton Farmhouse adjoins north and forms third side of the yard. Circa C17, rendered stone rubble, steeply pitched slate roof with hipped corner, two storeys, long five-window range with various casements. Rendered ridge chimney stack and external stairs to loft door. Berry Barton adjoining west forms fourth side of the quadrangle. Circa C17, remodelled in late C19. Rendered stone steeply pitched concrete tile roof with gabled ends. Two storeys. Four-window range. C19 casements. Ground floor late C19 splayed bays and late C19 porch at centre. Two-light hollow-chamfered granite mullion window at rear facing yard. Rendered ridge stack off centre and stacks at gable ends. Later gabled wing to left hand at front. Interior of Berry Manor House has large C16 granite chimney piece in centre ground floor room on rear wall with two orders of roll-moulded ogee arches and two granite doorways with roll-moulded four-centred heads and carved spandrels. C17 wainscot panelling in centre and west end rooms. C18 lean-to pasage at rear with moulded cornice. The staircase is Victorian. Berry Manor House was the rectory before the Reformation and used by the Priors of Moreton to whom the church belonged. At the Reformation it passed to the Dukes of Somerset and after the destruction of the Seymour Mansion inside Berry Pomeroy Castle q.v. it reputedly became the Dower House of the Seymours.

Listing NGR: SX8288261053

External Links

• Wikidata Q26610486

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)