Charlton House
CHARLTON HOUSE, ILCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1056766
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Charlton House
- Statutory Address:
- CHARLTON HOUSE, ILCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1056766
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Charlton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARLTON HOUSE, ILCHESTER ROAD
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:
- CHARLTON HOUSE, ILCHESTER ROAD
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:
- ST5294829070
Details
ST52NW
CHARLTON MACKRELL CP
ILCHESTER ROAD (East side)
5/36
Charlton House
17.4.59
GV II*
Detached house. Dated 1726, with later extensions. Local lias stone cut and squared with painted Ham stone dressings;
hipped mansard roof covered with Welsh slates, behind low parapets; stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys with attics; west
elevation of 7 bays, the end bays being set back and slightly lower. Plinth, string courses, low parapet with heavily
moulded coping, rusticated quoins: bays 2 to 6 have 8-pane sash windows in bolection mould surrounds, the upper windows
having segmental arched heads and apron-panels below, and between bays 3 and 4 and 4 and 5 semi-circular arched niches
in matching architraves; to lower bay 4 the entrance, with pair 4 panel doors in bolection mould architrave, with open
porch having Doric columns and entablature: dormer windows in roof over bays 3, 4 and 5: bay 1 has a 16-pane sash
window in plain opening above, and below a 3-light leaded mullioned and transomed window with 3 centre arched head; to
bay 7 blind panels at both levels, with semi-circular arched niche with keystone and impost blocks below and segmental
arched with apron-panel above. Modern extension to north gable; single-storey bay window on south gable, and later
lean-to extension to rear (also linked is the Dovecote, qv). Interior has been modified, and part of the hall partition
has been renewed, otherwise there remain the 6 fielded panel doors, and the staircase, which appears to be re-used from
elsewhere (tradition says from Manor Farmhouse, qv). North west root has ceiling cornice and frieze, presumably C18, as
does the south east room. Attics very little altered: orginally a double roof plan, the main structure still survives
below the Mansard; some plank and muntin partitioning; the servants stairs giving access to this unaltered. The
property, then known as Lanchers, bacame property of the Lyte family of Lytes Cary (qv) in 1540, and it was Thomas Lyte
(died 1748) who built this house: the Lyte arts feature on the rainwater stackheads. John Jerritt, owner 1800-06,
diverted the Kingweston Road further west, keeping the old road as the carriage drive.(Victoria County History, Volume
III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST5294829070
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262841
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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