Cricket Court, and Attached Balustraded Walling Around Basement Areas
CRICKET COURT, AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADED WALLING AROUND BASEMENT AREAS, CRICKET LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1056158
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Cricket Court, and Attached Balustraded Walling Around Basement Areas
- Statutory Address:
- CRICKET COURT, AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADED WALLING AROUND BASEMENT AREAS, CRICKET LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1056158
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Cricket Court, and Attached Balustraded Walling Around Basement Areas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRICKET COURT, AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADED WALLING AROUND BASEMENT AREAS, CRICKET LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CRICKET COURT, AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADED WALLING AROUND BASEMENT AREAS, CRICKET LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knowle St. Giles
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 36011 11414
Details
KNOWLE ST GILES CP CRICKET LANE (west side, off) ST31SE CRICKET MALHERBIE 2/56 Cricket Court, and attached balustraded walling around basement areas 4.2.58 GV II*
Country house. Erected 1811 for Admiral Pitt, possibly modified in late C19. Local stone some rendered and colourwashed, flint panels. Ham stone ashlar dressings; hipped elevation of 4 bays, the basement concealed by earthworks. Rusticated quoins; ground floor windows large 20-pane sashes with eared and heeled architraves and aetope friezes over bays 1 2 and 4, above which is a cornice carrying a wrought iron balcony at first floor level, the windows at this level being casements with timber pediments: to bay 3 a pair of flush-panelled doors in Egyptian style battered architrave, protected by projecting portico, up 11 steps, with 4 Tuscan columns and matching pilasters, full entablature and pediment, and added roof over: the entrance stair flanked by balustraded walling which extends serpentine fashion around the basement areas surrounding the house: basement windows 8-liqht segmental-arched. North elevation 3 bays and west 4 bays, with marjined French doors below end above, the upper windows cutting through cornice, 2-bays of each elevation being set in segmental curve. Interior not accessible. A highly eccentric design, quite possibly by Pitt himself: fragments of a C16 house preceeding this said to survive, (Pevsner, N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST3601111414
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262182
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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