History continued

Haudlo held by the curtesy after his wife's death. (fn. 72) Maud's son John Lovel (d. 1347) succeeded and the manor descended with North Cheriton until Sir John Rogers and his son Richard sold it in 1548 to James Bisse (d. 1569) and his brother John. John (d. 1571) was succeeded by his son James (d. 1606), his grandson James (d. 1646), and by James (d. 1652) and Edward Bisse (d. 1670), grandsons of the last. Edward's son James (d. 1713) was succeeded by his son James who sold a third of the manor in 1725 to Paul Daranda, possibly in trust. In 1738 Edward Halliday and his wife sold the manor to Benjamin Beach. In 1777 Hester, wife of John Maskelyn, Elizabeth Lawrence, and Margaret Beach, probably sisters and coheirs, sold the manor to Edward Baker apparently in trust for his brother John. John (d. 1789) left his estates to his three children Susannah (d. 1790), William (d. 1809), and Thomas (d. 1833). In 1796 the brothers divided the estate between them, Thomas taking the lordship. They died without legitimate issue and in 1835 Thomas's widow Mary Ann and her second husband Charles Harwood obtained a settlement of the manor under Thomas's will. After Mary Ann's death in 1835 the will was found to have been a forgery and in 1842 Charles and his second wife released the manor to Thomas's cousins and next heirs, Maria and Sarah Baker (d. 1846). (The sisters conveyed half to George Baker, who had instigated the proceedings concerning the forged will. In 1853 Maria and George assigned the manor and two farms in trust for Dr. Michael Reynolds. Reynolds died in 1858 and was succeeded by his daughter Thomasine (d. 1876), wife of Thomas Harries, and her children Warenne Harries and Mary Henrietta, wife of Howel Gwynne. Lordship was not recorded again. The estate appears to have been divided and sold.
A court, garden, and dovecot were mentioned in 1294 but there is no record of a manor house in 1441. Upper Farm was described as the capital messuage in 1795 and was known as Manor Farm by 1835. The building known as Manor Farmhouse dates from c. 1700 and is an L-shaped building of two storeys and attics with a five-bayed front with mullioned and transomed windows.
A house and land, formerly belonging to Longleat (Wilts.) priory, were granted in 1541 to Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford, who in the same year conveyed them to John Thynne. In 1549 Thynne sold them to James Bisse and John Bisse the younger and they were absorbed into the manor.
The rectory estate, part of the rectory manor of Batcombe by the early 18th century, in 1842 comprised two houses and 21 a. One of the houses, known as Ivy House in the 19th century and in 1995 as Upton Noble Manor, is a substantial early 17th-century house of two storeys with large attic gables. The plan is irregular and provides service rooms alongside the hall whose main fireplace is in an end wall. The north-west, kitchen, end was rebuilt in the 19th century. The interior has a staircase and several fireplaces of the early 17th century.