Description

SX 65 SE ERMINGTON
6/59
Higher Ludbrook

II

Small country house in its own garden, now a farmhouse on the site of, and
incorporating some fabric of an earlier manor house. Circa C16 or C17 rear (east)
range with early C19 house built on front (west).
West front: Stuccoed. Slate hipped roof with deep moulded and dentilled eaves
cornice. Corner pilasters. Moulded plinth. Two storeys. Four bays. Sash windows
with glazing bars, first floor with hood moulds, ground floor with pediments on
console brackets. Central doorway, its pediment lower than the pediments of the
ground floor windows, pilasters, blind fanlight and glazed double doors. Slate hung
side walls.
At the rear (east) C16 or C17 stone rubble range, with rendered chimney stacks, under
catslide slate roof. Interior of earlier range has stopped chamfer ceiling beams and
fireplace on rear wall with wooden bressumer on stone corbels.

Listing NGR: SX6604653710

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26610820

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