Colinshays House With Attached Wing Wall to North

COLINSHAYS HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WING WALL TO NORTH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1056459
Date first listed:
29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
Colinshays House With Attached Wing Wall to North
Statutory Address:
COLINSHAYS HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WING WALL TO NORTH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1056459
Date first listed:
29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
Colinshays House With Attached Wing Wall to North
Statutory Address 1:
COLINSHAYS HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WING WALL TO NORTH

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COLINSHAYS HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WING WALL TO NORTH

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Brewham
National Grid Reference:
ST7065035985

Details

ST73NW
2/46

BREWHAM CP
Colinshays House with attached wing wall to North

GV
II

House. c1815, with substantial later C19 addtions. Local stone cut and squared with Doulting stone dressings; earlier portion has Welsh slates between coped gables, newer section has hipped roof with featured coped gables; stone chimney stacks, the later arranged in diagonal groups. The 1815 portion to North West rustic in character, of 2 storeys with attics, 4 bays. Small pane casements in plain openings with keystones at lower level; bays 1 and 4 coped gabled with attic windows, battlemented parapet between then. On North side of this portion a gable with bell in bell shaped turret over pointed arch doorway and pointed "Y"-traceried sash windows. Later block to South East trapezoid on plain, more formal; 2 storeys, 2 bays. Plinth string and eaves cornices; timber mullioned and transomed windows with small panes set into ashlar surrounds with labels, gables over first floor windows; between bays an ashlar porch in Gothic style with corner buttresses, moulded 4-centre arch doorway, with pair 10-panel doors; plain square plaque over. This portion apparently little altered internally.
To North a rubble wing wall leading to tall archway with shield over set into stepped gable leading into the farmyard, a group of unremarkable C19 buildings.
House started by one John Dampier, also owner of Brewham Manor about 1815. (Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972).


Listing NGR: ST7065035985

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
261474
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, (1972)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Colinshays House With Attached Wing Wall to North

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