Eastwood Manor Farm Steading

Eastwood Manor Farm Steading
Location East Harptree, Somerset, England
Coordinates 51°17′48″N 2°36′32″W / 51.29667°N 2.60889°W / 51.29667; -2.60889Coordinates: 51°17′48″N 2°36′32″W / 51.29667°N 2.60889°W / 51.29667; -2.60889
Built 1860
Architect Robert Smith
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name: Eastwood Manor Farm Steading
Designated 15 January 1986[1]
Reference no. 32763
Location of Eastwood Manor Farm Steading in Somerset

Eastwood Manor Farm Steading in East Harptree, Somerset, England is a Grade I listed building.[1][2]

It was built in 1860 by Robert Smith for William Taylor at a cost of £1,500. Taylor had been the butler to Sir William Gourney of Gourney Court in West Harptree who married his masters daughter and inherited the family fortune.[3]

The farm including the site for the construction of Eastwood Manor was bought by Charles Adams Kemble (son of the Reverend Charles Kemble, rector of Bath) in the 1860s.[4] A series of fishponds were created on the farm by damming a small stream.[5]

The barn covers 1.25 acres (0.51 ha) with 5 bays to the main facade. Cast iorn pillars support the brickwork and waggon roof.[6] It contained several feed stores, two bullock yards with fountains, a flax mill, cider press and threshing machine. The machinery was powered by a water mill which was replaced by steam, oil and diesel engines.[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Eastwood Manor Farm Steading". Images of England. English Heritage. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
  2. ↑ "Eastwood Manor Farm, Bristol , England". Parks and Gardens UK. Parks and Gardens Data Services Ltd. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  3. 1 2 Lees, Dan (1986). Off-Beat Somerset. Bodmin: Bossiney Books. pp. 81–85. ISBN 0 948158 15 8.
  4. ↑ Budd, Jon (1999). East Harptree: Times remembered, time forgotten. East Harptree Millenium Committee. pp. 153–156. ISBN 978-0953751501.
  5. ↑ "East Harptree Landscape & Character Assessment" (PDF). East Harptree Parish Council. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Eastwood Manor Farm Steading (1129549)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
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