Golsoncott House
GOLSONCOTT HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057544
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Golsoncott House
- Statutory Address:
- GOLSONCOTT HOUSE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/04569/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057544
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Golsoncott House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOLSONCOTT HOUSE
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:
- GOLSONCOTT HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Cleeve
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 02405 39041
Details
ST03NW OLD CLEEVE CP GOLSONCOTT
4/73 Golsoncott House
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- II
House. Dated 1912. Roughcast over rubble, squared and coursed red sandstone entrance tower with half timbered gabled top, herringbone brick nogging, hipped bell-cast roof with overhanging eaves, large rendered stacks set on roof ridge, 2 right, one left of entrance. Plan: splayed L-shape, small octagonal entrance hall with services left and corridor right linking the 2 slightly projecting wings of garden front, stairs and dining room fronted by 4 bay loggia. Arts and Crafts style. One and a half storeys, many paned 2- and 3-light casements, 2 hipped dormers with gablets left, one right, end bay left half timbered returned over loggica gabled top to 2 and a half storey entrance tower carried on shaped brackets, ground floor left 4 irregular sized window openings, long corridor window right, entrance pentice porch carried on shaped brackets, 4 centred arch doorway inscribed 1912, moulded plank door with wrought iron knocker by Horrobin. Garden front, 1:2:1 bays, rendered asymmetrical by extra storey added to gabled tile hung wing right with sleeping porch to left of left gabled wing, circular stone columns of 4 bay loggia with 2 hipped dormers above centre. Loggia on left return now glazed. Interior: contemporary fittings including completely panelled and white painted garden room. Built by Count Hochburg for his land agent on the Croydon Hall estate. A very picturesque composition in the Arts and Crafts style of which there are very few good examples in the county.
Listing NGR: ST0240539041
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264830
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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