The Court
THE COURT, WEST CHARLTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1056732
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Court
- Statutory Address:
- THE COURT, WEST CHARLTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1056732
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COURT, WEST CHARLTON
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:
- THE COURT, WEST CHARLTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- The Charltons
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 52790 28444
Details
ST52NW CHARLTON MACKRELL CP WEST CHARLTON (North side) 5/48 The Court
17.4.59
GV II*
Detached house. 1792. Built for Richard Ford, rector. Local lias stone rubble; Welsh slate roof between coped gables; stone chimney stacks. In a Georgian Gothic style. South front 3 storeys, 5 bays. battlemented parapet, from which a centre gable was removed in C19; 16-pane sash windows with Y traceried work at heads, taken down to floor level at ground floor, normal first floor; matching 8-pane sash windows second floor, all set in plain openings with voussoired slightly segmental arched openings; dog guards in iron to lower windows; centre-bay has projecting 2-bay Ham stone porch with pointed arches, battlemented parapet and corner pinnacles with shield of arms in centre: plates for tie bars between all bays. On east elevation a single-light C16 window, also a single-storey C19 angled-bay with battlemented pediment and larger-pane sash windows traceried to match. north elevation random fenestration, cut into hillside and not generally seen, includes larger pointed arched window to staircase. Interior a mixture of Gothic and Regency detail suggesting that internal works were finished over long period; 2 rooms deep; rooms have Regency architraves; some doors replaced with C20 doors; ornamental coved ceilings; through hall has Gothic style cross-screen, and at rear good cantilevered stone stair with Gothic style wrot iron balustrade. Kitchen wing demolished in 1950's and replaced by small extension on west Gable. A rectory, first mentioned 1524, by late C18 decribed as 'very ruinous', and 'repaired' by Richard Ford in 1792, in fact almost totally rebuilt: sold on the merger of the living in 1922. (Victoria County History, Volume III, 1974; Nares G. Country Life: Vol CV11, January 20th 1950).
Listing NGR: ST5278828443
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262853
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
Country Life in 20 January, Vol. 107, (1950)
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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