Glenthorne House With The Entrance Gate Piers And Street Boundary Wall

Description

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

ST5516SE YEOVIL CP PRINCES STREET (East side)

5/92 No 38 (Glenthorne House) with the entrance gate piers and street boundary wall

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GV II

Villa of c1820, now offices. Stucco, with hipped Welsh slate roof behind parapet. 2-storey front elevation set back from road, 3-bays, with long 12-pane sash windows at ground floor level set in plain openings: the first floor windows have semi-circular heads with radial glazing bars in upper portions, the remaining glazing bars removed: Regency style panelled soffite to cornice, and Gothick arched panels in parapet above. Doorway in plain South return wall with modern timber doorhead. To the rear a C18 extension (or possibly separate house), also rendered but with hipped plain tiled roof. 2-storey. 6-panel door (top 2-panels glazed) in simple opening with stone hood and console brackets over: to side a 12-pane sash window, the lower casement having lost its glazing bars: to first floor a central longer 12-pane window. The interiors not inspected. Also of interest are the low stone wall and tall stone gate piers, which have Gothick arched panels and moulded pyramidal tops.

Listing NGR: ST5560216109

Content

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

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© Mr Brian Haigh. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project