Sydenham House, Somerset

Sydenham House, the manor house of the ancient manor of Sydenham in the parish of Wembdon,[1] Somerset, England, is a grade II listed building,[2] constructed in the early 16th century and refronted and rebuilt after 1613.

The house is situated to the north side of the A39 Bath Road, about one mile (1.6 km) north-east of the centre of historic Bridgwater, It was the earliest known seat of the de Sydenham (later Sydenham) family,[9][10] which took its surname from the manor.

Percival lords of the manor of Sydenham included Richard Percivale (1550–1620) an administrator and politician, also known as a Hispanist and lexicographer.

He was the eldest son and heir of George Perceval (1561–1601) of Sydenham, by his wife Elizabeth Bampfylde, a daughter of Sir Edward Bampfylde (d.1528)[12] of Poltimore, Devon and Elizabeth Wadham, daughter of Sir Nicholas Wadham (died 1542) of Edge, Branscombe and Merryfield, Ilton.

Sydenham House was restored in the 1960s and again in the 1980s, and in 1987 served as a conference and hospitality centre for British Cellophane Ltd.[13]