Description

TL 4032 ANSTEY ANSTEY (North side)

7/4 Anstey Hall 22.2.67

GV II

Manor House. Mid C17 S range, earlier N range, early C19 E garden front linking the then separate ranges, W link of early C20 with portico of later C20. Timber frame plastered, plastered red brick early C19 casing to S front, and steep hipped tiled roofs. A large square 2-storeys house now entered from W, originally consisting of 2 parallel buildings some 5m apart. A 4-bay N range with jowled posts side chimney, and cut-off brace has been extended to E in early C19 to line with the 5-bay mid C17 S range. This has a symmetrical layout with 2 wide bays flanking a narrow chimney bay in the middle, and shorter end bays. The large central chimney has 4 tall octagonal shafts in-line across the centre of the roof. Symmetrical S front with corner pilasters, a plinth, parapet stepping up in the middle, an upright oval 1st floor window in the centre over a recessed sash window of 6/6 panes, and triple sash windows on both floors to each side. The Ground Floor windows only have wide moulded surrounds. More irregular W entrance front with 4 Doric columns to a flat portico, approached by curving stairways at each end. The interior has exposed timbers, the S wing with unjowled posts, face-halved bladed scarf joint in the wallplate, chamfered heavy cross-beams and axial beams, and an ovolo moulded axial beam in the E room on the Ground Floor. On the site of the capital messuage which replaced the castle as the Caput of the Manor. (VCH (1914)11-14: RCHM Typescript: Bailey (1983)21).

Listing NGR: TL4049532913

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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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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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)