Bradninch Manor

Heritage listing

Details BRADNINCH PARSONAGE STREET (north side), ST OO SW Bradninch 12/45 Bradninch Manor (formerly listed - 16.9.77 as Manor House) - I Large detached house, formerly the manor house. Built 1547 for Peter Seynthill; cross wings added early in the C17; Hall remodelled early in the C18: later alterations. Central range, brick to front, cob to rear; coursed rubble volcanic trap cross wings under gabled-end slate roofs. The single-depth central range with hall at ground level, bedrooms above, and rear corrider, to all appearances dating from the early C18, occupies the site of the 1547 Hall described in 1645 as 'Peter's great and lofty hall'; part of the roof of this survives, the pair of columns at the end of the present hall probably marks the position of the screens passage; the rear cob wall may also date from this period. The left-hand cross wing contains the C17 principal rooms and ground staircase; the right-hand wing contained the dining room, servery and kitchen but has been subsequently much re- ordered. 2 axial stacks to main range; one partially dismantled external lateral wing to right-hand elevation (possibly the end stack to the original main range); rear end stack to left-hand cross wing and another to the inner face of same. All intact stacks with brick shafts. 2 storeys throughout, the wings with attic storey. Front: Central range of 5 bays, symmetrical; hornless sash windows throughout, 6 panes to 1st floor, 12 to ground floor, all with moulded timber architraves, that to the central 1st floor window lugged and shouldered. Brick window arches with keystones. Plat band. Central doorway under pediment with carnice and modillions, Tuscan pilasters; glazed inner and outer doors. Moulded gutter box extends to inner faces of wings, neither of which have window

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.