Castle of Comfort
CASTLE OF COMFORT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057422
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Castle of Comfort
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE OF COMFORT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057422
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Castle of Comfort
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE OF COMFORT
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:
- CASTLE OF COMFORT
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 17125 39997
Details
ST13NE HOLFORD CP DODINGTON
11/112 Castle of Comfort
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GV II
Inn, now hotel. Probably C16, alterations dated 1655, subsequently altered and enlarged notably late C19. Roughcast over rubble, plain tile roof, decorative ridge tiles, overhanging eaves decorative bargeboards and brackets, brick stack to right of entrance and centre left. Plan: has undergone extensive modifications, probably open hall house, ceiled 1655, stair turret at rear, outer bays extended and gabled cross wings added. Two storeys, long facade, gabled cross wings, scattered fenestration, mainly late C19 casements with many small panes; left gable end 2 small C20 casements, centre 2-light casements grouped one left, 3 right, 3 of them with gables, C20 casement right gable end, ground floor left gable end unlit with segmental headed carriage- way entrance on right return now glazed, 3 narrow single light casements and 2-light casement to left of entrance, 3 narrow casements to right, 2-light casement right gable end. Pantiled gabled porch, decorative bargeboards, plank door. Interior, main feature of interest plaster decoration on first floor chimney breast date 1655, coat of arms flanked by strawberry flowers, chamfered wooden lintel carried in cyma recta sandstone brackets, unchamfered jambs; plaster motif on ceiling with conical pendant. (An inspection of the roof might yield more information.) There was a licenced vitualler recorded at the Castle of Comfort 1689 and it continued as an inn until the 1860s. Dorothy Wordsworth records a visit in her diary 1798. (VCH Somerset, Vol.5 forthcoming).
Listing NGR: ST1712539997
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265144
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
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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