Sandford Manor

Heritage listing

Details ST23NE 8/97 29.3.63 WEMBDON CP WEMBDON HILL (South Side) Sandford Manor (Formerly listed as Sandford Farm House) ) II Marked on OS map as Sandford Farmhouse.Manor house. Dated by inscription 1570, though core appears earlier, C19 alterations; for Thomas Broughton. Coursed and squared red sandstone rubble, hipped and gabled slate roofs, coped verges, C19 brick stacks. T-plan, of 2 distinct heights, main entrance in a lower wing to rear. Entrance frontage of 2 storeys, 1:2 bays, left bay projecting; predominantly 3 and 4-light reserved chamfer stone mullioned windows, further ovolo-moulded stone mullioned window, stopped labels, 3 window openings to ground floor with relieving arches; 2 windows with iron stanchions and leaded lights; 2 small single-light windows in stone surrounds to right of first floor, one blocked. Semi-circular head stone doorcase, bold carved leaf decoration to the spandrels, moulded cornice on fluted and reeded three-quarter columns, plain capitals, bases on pedestals, each with a lozenge decoration, triangular pediment with a base for a finial at its apex; achievement with mantling to tympanum, in relief;- "TB 1570"; doorway gives onto a benched porch, studded inner plank door, pegged wooden frame. Left return of 3 bays, two 3,4 and 5-light C19 wooden mullioned windows, some with transoms; single C16 4-light stone mullioned window under a relieving arch. Gabled stair turret to West elevation of main block, stairs removed. Some C16 ovolo moulded wooden mullioned windows to rear elevations. Much altered interior; Salient feature the massive fireplace in moulded 4-centred stone surround; some moulded C16 door surrounds. Much re-used C16 panelling to the first floor; early C19 staircase. The former Manor House of the Manor of Sandford. Listing

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.