Freshford Manor

The house was built in the early 18th century and revised and extended in the late 18th or early 19th century. It was built on the site of an earlier house known as Pittes Place which dated from before 1603. The site was bought by Robert Hayward who employed the architect Thomas Greenway, who had designed several buildings in Bath to design the new building, which was known as Freshford House. In the early 19th century, while owned by Thomas Joyce, John Pinch the elder was employed to raise the central block and add a new wing at the rear. In 1886 the house was bought by Thomas Player Isaac who was a local architect. He added the north wing and a conservatory. He sold the house to Percival…

The two-storey building is built in ashlar Cotswold stone, with a slate roof behind a parapet. The five bay front has a projecting porch with Tuscan columns, around the central doorway. Within the grounds are magnolias dating from the 19th century. The boundary wall and gatepiers were added in the late 18th century.