Wayford Manor House

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Wayford Manor House
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Location Wayford, Somerset, England, U.K.
Coordinates 50°51′19″N2°50′45″W / 50.85528°N 2.84583°W / 50.85528; -2.84583
Builtc. 1600
Listed Building – Grade I
Designated4 February 1958 [1]
Reference no.1177681
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Location of Wayford Manor House in Somerset

Wayford Manor House is a country house with a garden in Britain, situated in Wayford, Somerset, England. It has been designated a Grade I listed building. [1]

Contents

House

The house includes a central range which was rebuilt about 1600 on the site of an earlier building by Charles Daubeney, [2] probably with William Arnold as master mason.

The north wing was completed in 1900 by architect Sir Ernest George. [1]

Garden

Work on the gardens, including terraces and archways was carried out by Harold Peto around 1902. [3] Peto was the brother of the wife of Lawrence Ingham Baker when he bought the house. [4] The current Arts and Crafts garden is partly built on the site of an earlier Elizabethan garden. [5] It includes a Japanese garden and a collection of mature trees, [6] along with a rock garden, orchard and shrubs. [7] The garden is listed Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. [8]

Wayford Woods, close to the house, has an ornamental lake and is known for its large number of fairy doors. [9] [10]

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References

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