The orangery and linking wing walling to the north-west corner of Montacute House

Montacute House, The Borough, TA15 6XP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262472
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: The orangery and linking wing walling to the north-west corner of Montacute House
Statutory Address:: Montacute House, The Borough, TA15 6XP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262472
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: The orangery and linking wing walling to the north-west corner of Montacute House
Statutory Address 1:: Montacute House, The Borough, TA15 6XP

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Montacute House, The Borough, TA15 6XP

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Montacute
National Grid Reference:: ST4992917206

Details

ST4917 7/124

MONTACUTE CP THE BOROUGH (North side, off) The orangery and linking wing walling to the north-west corner of Montacute House

19.4.61

GV II Orangery. 1848, possibly by Lewis Vulliamy. Ham stone ashiar; hipped leaded glass roof in small panes. Single-storey, seven bays. Plinth, Doric pilasters between bays and to corners, these all topped by obelisk finials over a quasi-cornice; forty-pane sash windows to all but the wider centre bay, which has a pair of glazed doors with twenty one panes each. Timber-frame internally. Undergoing restoration at time of inspection (September 1985).

Extending from south-east corner for about 6 metres to Montacute House (q.v) walling about 2.5m high, solid below and capped by turned balusters and moulded coping; central gateway with square piers having obelisk finials, with pair C19 cast iron gates. The whole adds to the setting of the House, and is part of the mid C19 reshaping of the grounds.

Listing NGR: ST4992917206

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 434946
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Girouard, M et al, Montacute House, (1985)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 Somerset,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.