Ashley Combe Lodge
Ashley Combe Lodge, Porlock Weir, TA24 8PG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058042
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ashley Combe Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- Ashley Combe Lodge, Porlock Weir, TA24 8PG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058042
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ashley Combe Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ashley Combe Lodge, Porlock Weir, TA24 8PG
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:
- Ashley Combe Lodge, Porlock Weir, TA24 8PG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Porlock
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS8582548189
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 March 2022 to correct the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SS84NE
3/43
PORLOCK CP
ASHLEY COMBE
PORLOCK WEIR
Ashley Combe Lodge
II
Lodge to Ashley Combe (demolished) and toll house. Late C19. Possibly by Lady Lovelace. Red sandstone random rubble, brick dressings, hipped thatched roof, roughcast stacks left gable end and between second and third bays left.
Plan: gateway with dwelling to north, curved east facade extended by full height curved wall with archway, serpentine west front. Arts and Crafts picturesque style.
West front: two storeys, three windows face left of semicircular headed archway, skew brick arch, lancet to right, Lombardic frieze cornice to curved walls only, all two-light many paned casements, left two bays with central plank door, bay to left facade bulges forward with asymmetrically placed windows and plank door in curved wall by gateway.
East front: Lombardic frieze cornice continued around curved retaining wall with semi-circular headed archway to footpath, closed by C20 wooden gate. Pair of semi-circular headed many paned windows first floor, similar window below, lancet to right of archway to toll road closed by C20 wooden gate. Interior not seen. Northern two bays probably a nearly contemporary extension. Ashley Combe was demolished in 1974.
Listing NGR: SS8582548189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265456
- 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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