8 Hendford House / Flowers House With Adjacent Gate Piers

Date:
21 Sep 1999
Location:
8 Hendford House, Yeovil, South Somerset, Somerset, BA20 1TQ
Show all locations
Flowers House With Adjacent Gate Piers, 15 Hendford House, Yeovil, South Somerset, Somerset, BA20 1TQ
Reference:
IOE01/00103/18
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
Not what you're looking for? Try a new search

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

ST5515NE YEOVIL CP HENDFORD HOUSE (East side)

8/26 No 15 (Flowers House) (formerly No 8) with adjacent gate piers

-

GV II

Town House (now offices) of probably late C18. Local Stone cut and squared and ashlar dressings, with Welsh slate roof between coped gables, having two end and one off-centre stone chimney stacks. 3-storey facade of 5-bays, with central doorway (three steps up); 5-panel door (the upper four glazed) in painted stone surround, with shallow cornice mould hood supported by plainish console brackets. Simple architraves to sashes at each level; ground floor windows have lost their glazing bars: first and second flows have 12-pane windows. Stone plinth (with modern cellar window to right-hand of doorway; stone band at second floor level; simple cornice at top with low parapet wall over. Centre window first floor has lugged and heeled architrave. Interior not seen. To left-hand of house 2-capped stone gate piers flanking side entrance. (Formerly Henry Monk's private grammar school in late C19, later home of Dr. Flower).

Listing NGR: ST5550715848

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0882 IOE Records taken by Brian Haigh; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Brian Haigh. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Haigh, Brian

Rights Holder: Haigh, Brian

Keywords

Ashlar, Stone, Welsh Slate, Georgian Town House, Domestic, House, Dwelling, Gate Pier, Unassigned, Grammar School, Education, Secondary School, School, Private School, Office, Building