This historic listed manor house dating back to the 16th Century needs major work to revive its former splendour.
Grade II-listed Manor Farm, in the hamlet of Coxbridge near Baltonsborough village in Somerset, is available by the modern method of sale, with an auction date to be confirmed.
The vast accommodation includes a porch, entrance hall, two kitchens, three reception rooms, a utility room, larder, boot room, several store rooms, seven bedrooms, a family bathroom, WC and two attic rooms.
There is a fabulous stone barn and several other useful outbuildings each with scope for conversion and development.
In addition there are pretty gardens, orchards and concrete hardstandings, with the entire property totalling in excess of two acres.
Manor Farm is once thought to have been home to a priest with links to Glastonbury Abbey.
On the second floor there is a suspected priest hole thought to have been connected with the anti-Catholic persecution and the dissolution of Glastonbury Abbey at the hands of Henry VIII.
The property has been extended several times, once in the late 16th/early 17th Century with the addition of a new wing, and again on a number of occasions subsequently.
More recently, the house has been home to cheesemakers and also used as a working farm for many years.
Not only could the house be renovated, the barns and outbuildings also represent immense potential for further accommodation, future sources of income or extra storage if required.
Manor Farm has attractive stone elevations under a double Roman tiled roof with three prominent gables.
The south facing front elevation has many beautiful mullioned windows and stone quoins and is set back from the quiet countryside lane behind a lawned frontage.
Internally, parts of the property are in a state of disrepair but many wonderful features remain.
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These include wonderful flagstone floors, ceiling beams, timber floorboards, two exquisite fireplaces with flanking pilasters and a winding staircase in the eastern wing gable.
The central rising column of the staircase is said to be a former ship’s mast. The accommodation could easily provide four or more reception rooms and seven bedrooms, plus there’s even scope for an annexe if desired.
Entering the grounds of the property from the lane, a bridge passes over the brook to the south of the house and leads to the large concrete hardstanding area which currently provides ample parking.
Surrounding the hardstanding are several outbuildings. The Cart House is a superb stone barn more than 100 ft. in length with two stone arched openings in the eastern elevation.
The barn could be converted and split off as a separate dwelling and on the western side of the barn is a small area of paddock which would make an ideal new garden area if the barn was converted.
There are several other useful outbuildings including the cow store, another stone barn ripe for conversion and improvements, the piggery, cheese room and others.
On the western side of the property is an orchard full of eating and cooking apples and a garden area adjoining the brook which runs along the front of the house.
The thriving village of Baltonsborough has a church, primary school, village hall, pub, winery and a large new shop.
The village also has a very friendly community with a number of societies and organisations.
The closest town is Glastonbury. There was a Celtic monastery here by 500 AD which, in the next 1,000 years, evolved into one of England’s wealthiest and most influential abbeys.
The town grew up alongside the abbey and by the 18th Century, had received a charter and become a manufacturing and trading centre.
Today it’s a small but thriving town and a major tourist venue, welcoming thousands of visitors each year.
Just five miles from Glastonbury is Wells, which is the smallest city in England, population 10,000.
