Walreddon Manor

Heritage listing

Details WHITCHURCH SX 57 SW 6/174 Walreddon Manor - 21.3.67 GV I Manor house. License for chapel granted in 1401, present building may incorporate earlier structure; front porch formerly dated 1796 with initials MF for Mary Fitz. 3 main phases of building: first phase had a rectangular hall with through passage and service end; second phase in early-mid C17 included the rear kitchen wing, built behind the original lower end to right, with the front wing to right forming a cross wing. Third phase in the early C18 the higher end of the house was remodelled and possibly raised, and the front redesigned. Later alterations include the removal of a partition between the entrance passage and the hall in C20, forming direct entry from the front door to one large room. Front of rough coursed granite rubble with Hurdwick banding; these facades have modillion cornice under eaves. Rear and left side in random rubble, granite dressings to building before early C18. Slate roofs with gable end stack to left, rear lateral hall stack, gable end stack to front wing and rear gable end stack to rear kitchen wing with lower stack to side. Plan formed by accretion; originally through passage with upper end to left and lower end to right. The hall was heated by a rear lateral stack, and the service end to right also retains a rear lateral stack. There is a gabled stair tower to the rear of the upper end. The wing at the front of the lower end to right, of one room plan is heated by a gable end stack and a stair giving access to the upper floors of the cross wing is set at the right end; the rear kitchen wing is entered from the rear of the original lower end. The C18 remodelling created a symmetrical front and rooms at first floor; the roof construction visible at attic level is of late C17/e

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.