Shockerwick House
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Shockerwick House in Bathford
, Somerset
, England was built as a manor house
around 1750 by John Wood the Elder. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
The house was altered in 1896 by E. George and A. B. Yeates. It is now used as offices and a nursing home.
It is set in parkland within the Bybrook River
valley.
Bathford
Bathford is a village and civil parish east of Bath, England. The parish, which includes Warleigh has a population of 1,753, and extends over .-History:...
, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, England was built as a manor house
Manor house
A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...
around 1750 by John Wood the Elder. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
The house was altered in 1896 by E. George and A. B. Yeates. It is now used as offices and a nursing home.
It is set in parkland within the Bybrook River
Bybrook River
The Bybrook, also known as the By Brook is a tributary of the Bristol Avon, some long. The sources are the Burton Brook and the Broadmead Brook, which rise in South Gloucestershire at Tormarton and Cold Ashton respectively. They join just north of Castle Combe in Wiltshire. The river has a mean...
valley.