Scoles Manor, also known as Scoles Farm House, is former farmhouse and a Grade II*

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, two miles from

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, England. It is believed to be the oldest continuously occupied building in

parish. The main part of the house was built in 1635 and there is a medieval structure attached which has been dated to 1280 and which was either a chapel or a small

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. The name Scoles is derived from the family called Scoville or Scovil who originally came from the village of

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in Normandy. There are records of Scovilles living here in the 13th and 14th centuries but the property was then passed to their female descendants (including Dacombes and Colsons) before being bought in c. 1810 by

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