NHER 69585 (Building record) - Shernborne Hall

Shernborne Hall, which occupies site of medieval moat (NHER 1692).
Previously recorded under NHER 1692.

April 1984. Field Observation.
Vistied by E. Rose (NAU).
House is one wing of an Elizabethan E or half H-shaped house. South gable wall has polygonal angle turrets, stepped, windows on three levels but replaced in 19th century. East wall has towards south end a massive external stack (top replaced) its base hidden by later extentions. West wall has ground floor covered by conservatory; on upper floor traces of two large windows now infilled and cut by later ones, and at north end a blocked upper doorway formerly giving into upper floor of main block now demolished. North end rebuilt after demolition with tall wing projecting slightly to east - seems late 18th/early 19th century. When complete, house would have been off centre to moat towards west. Moat seems clearly to predate house.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 6 April 1984. Information from record card (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2025.

October 1984. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House. 16th century. Red brick, red pantiled roof. Two storeys with attic, cross wing of larger house no longer extant. Gabled range has two brick angle turrets with ground level set-off bands, one moulded band at first floor, two eaves level moulded bands with simple conical caps. Ground floor pair of part-glazed French doors, one first and attic floor sash with glazing bars. Crow-stepped gable. Roof: gable at south, hipped at north. Return to west has two ground and two first floor sashes with glazing bars, central ground floor door and attached 20th-century green house. Two exposed first floor wooden lintels suggest position of earlier, larger, rectangular windows. East return has massive external contemporary stack, replaced with 20th-century chimneys above. Attached at east a two-storey three-bay 18th-century service wing with additional late 19th-century High Victorian Gothic ground floor addition of carstone with brick dressings, flat roofed with contemporary cast-iron railings.
Information from (S2).
P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2025.

Shernborne Hall is now delisted, although exactly when this happened is unclear.
P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2025.

The moat and nearby earthworks (NHER 1692) were scheduled in April 2003 but the standing parts of Shernborne Hall are explicitly excluded from the scheduling, along with associated outbuildings, garden walls, two greenhouses, garden sheds, trellises and other garden furniture, modern paving and the surfaces of modern paths and driveways, inspection chambers, a lamp post, service poles, footbridges and all modern fences and gates.
P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2025.