Eastwood Manor

Eastwood Manor is a Grade II listed building in the village of East Harptree in the English County of Somerset.

Eastwood Manor
LocationEast Harptree, Somerset, England
Coordinates51°17′42″N 2°36′36″W
Built1871
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameEastwood Manor
Designated15 January 1986[1]
Reference no.1136374
Location of Eastwood Manor in Somerset

History

A house was built at Eastwood by Sir John Newton, using stone from Richmont Castle, during the 16th century, although its exact location is not known.[2][3]

The current Eastwood Manor was built in 1871.[1] It was built by Charles Adams Kemble (son of the Reverend Charles Kemble rector of Bath) who bought Eastwood Farm, including the Grade I listed Eastwood Manor Farm Steading,[4] and used stone from the local quarry to construct the house.[5] The quarry is approximately 100 metres (330 ft) south of the current house. It includes the entrances to two small barite or ochre mines.[6][7][8]

In 1892 Charles Adams Kemble sold it to William Bateman Hope who extended it and installed electrical wiring, making it one of the first houses in Somerset to have electric lights. In the 1930s the house was occupied by the Wardell Yerburgh family and then by the businessman Sir Foster Robinson who died there in 1967.

Architecture

Eastwood Manor is in a Gothic Revival style. The two-storey building has an attic and tiled roof.[1]

In 2009 a swimming pool was added to the northern rear elevation.[9]

Garden

At one time the gardens covered 18 acres (7.3 ha) with 820 acres (330 ha) of surrounding farm and parkland.[10]

The garden contains an avenue of lime trees and other mature trees, herbaceous borders, terraces and a spiral mound.[11] There was once a kitchen garden but this is now a paddock.[12]

References
  1. Historic England. "Eastwood Manor (1136374)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  2. "Some Historical Notes on East Harptree village". East Harptree Village. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  3. Brown, Graham. "Richmont Castle, East Harptree" (PDF). Research Department Report Series. English Heritage. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  4. "Eastwood Manor Farm Steading". historicengland.org.uk. English Heritage. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
  5. Budd, Jon (1999). East Harptree: Times remembered, time forgotten. East Harptree Millenium Committee. pp. 153–156. ISBN 978-0953751501.
  6. Simmonds, Vince (September 1999). "Eastwood Manor Mines". Belfry Bulletin. 504: 4.
  7. "Eastwood Manor Mine - 1". Mendip Cave Registry & Archive. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  8. "Eastwood Manor Mine - 2". Mendip Cave Registry & Archive. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  9. "Planning application" (PDF). Bath and North East Somerset. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  10. "Auction details for Eastwood Manor, East Harptree, October 5, year unknown". Bath in Time. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  11. "Eastwood Manor". National Gardens Scheme. Archived from the original on 23 January 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  12. "Eastwood Manor, Bristol , England". Parks and Gardens UK. Parks and Gardens Data Services Ltd. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
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