Listed Building record MDO27598 - Senior's Farmhouse and attached barn, New Street, Marnhull

House, of about 1500 with eighteenth century and later additions and alterations. Built in coursed rubble and ashlar walls with gable-ended, tiled and stone-slated roof. The barn is eighteenth century with rubble walls and a stone-slate roof.

SENIOR'S FARM (78101873), house, 30 yds. W. of the parish church, is two-storied with attics and has walls of squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and roofs partly of stone-slate and partly tiled. The main E. range (Plate 56) dates from c. 1500 and retains several original features of high quality; the W. Range is of the 18th century. The E. range is of architectural interest for its rich decorative finish, although its original purpose is uncertain. It may perhaps have originated as a manor house for occasional occupation by monks of Glastonbury Abbey, to which the parish formerly belonged; or, being close to the church, it could have been the residence of a well-endowed chantry priest. <2, 3> (ST 78101873) 'Senior's Farm', name confirmed, remains as described by RCHM <3> and in an excellent state of preservation. <4>

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