Description

SP 81 SE WESTON TURVILLE CHURCH WALK
5/322 The Manor House
25/10/51
II*
House. Early C18 with later C18 west wing. Plum brick with red
brick dressings. Remains of tuck pointing. Old tiled roof with end
chimney stacks, heavy bracketted wood eaves cornice, Double pile
plan. 3-storeys, front has 5 bays of sash windows with gauged brick
segmental arches, C19 glazing pattern. Central 6-panel door with
radiating and wreathed fanlight and panelled reveals under restored
Doric pertico with panelled soffit, columns and pilasters, entablature
with swags and reeding on frieze. Central 1st floor window semicircular
arched with C20 radiating fanlight. West wing is brick with low
hipped old tiled roof and coved moulded brick eaves cornice. 2-storeys,
1st floor band, west elevation has 3 bays of gothic patterned sash
windows under gauged brick arches, semicircular to centre, venetian
to side bays. Projecting central porch with canted sides and small
Y traceried windows, C20 glazed door with semicircular radiating iron
fanlight, Doric pilasters supporting entablature with dentil cornice.
Interior Entrance hall has re-used C17 oak panelling with fluted
frieze. C18 panelled arch to staircase hall. C18 wooden staircase
with shaped tread ends and turned balusters. LH front room has plain
C18 paneling, moulded cornice and wood bolection moulded chimneypiece.
LH 1st floor room has early C18 panelled stone chimneypiece with
early C19 gothic pattern grate. West wing RH ground floor room has fine
late C18 carved wood chimneypiece, frieze with central panel of
shepherd and sheep, ceiling with original margin with moulded plaster
vine pattern, C20 central panels and boss. 1st floor room above has C18
dentil cornice and floral frieze, marble chimneypiece with enriched
moulded cornice, C20 wall panels and ceiling pattern.

Listing NGR: SP8589010413

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539350

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)