Alfoxton Park Hotel
ALFOXTON PARK HOTEL, ALFOXTON
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057418
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Alfoxton Park Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- ALFOXTON PARK HOTEL, ALFOXTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057418
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Alfoxton Park Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALFOXTON PARK HOTEL, ALFOXTON
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:
- ALFOXTON PARK HOTEL, ALFOXTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 14794 41378
Details
ST14SW HOLFORD CP ALFOXTON
5/86 Alfoxton Park Hotel
22.5.69
GV II
Country house, now hotel. C18, refenestrated and re-roofed C19. Rendered over rubble, shallow pedimented central block breaks forward slightly, dentil cornice continued around tympanum, bitumen covered hipped slate roof, overhanging eaves, independently roofed asbestos slate covered addition left with central brick stacks, other brick stacks to rear of main block. Plan: double pile, addition to left originally an orangery. Main block: 2 and a half storeys, 2:3:2 bays, flat headed 4-light dormer casements flanking pediment with circular window in tympanum, all other windows long C19 2-light casements, keystones and blind boxes. Central pedimented Doric porch, frieze and dentil cornice, C20 half glazed double doors. Groundfloor 2 bays right largely obscured by ivy at time of survey (August 1983). Right, 5 bay addition, steeply pitched roof continued over verandah carried on circular rendered piers, St. Albyn crest on wall. Left 5 bay return, 2 segmental headed dormers, similar fenestration to facade. Interior: much altered C19 and C20. Listed for architectural and historic interest, the home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth between July 1797 and June 1798. Dorothy began her journal here in January 1798 but discontinued it 2 months later to recommence when the couple moved to the Lake District. (Photograph in NMR; Moorman, M (ed) Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, 1971).
Listing NGR: ST1479441378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265135
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Moorman, M, Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, (1971)
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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