ORCHARDLEA HOUSE, FORECOURT WALLS AND GATES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1058140
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: ORCHARDLEA HOUSE, FORECOURT WALLS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: ORCHARDLEA HOUSE, FORECOURT WALLS AND GATES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1058140
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: ORCHARDLEA HOUSE, FORECOURT WALLS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: ORCHARDLEA HOUSE, FORECOURT WALLS AND GATES

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ORCHARDLEA HOUSE, FORECOURT WALLS AND GATES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lullington
National Grid Reference:: ST 77714 51286

Details

ST75SE LULLINGTON CP ORCHARDLEA PARK

4/193 Orchardlea House, forecourt walls and gates

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GV II*

Country House. 1856 by T H Wyatt for William Duckworth. Coursed rubble, slate roofs with bands in differing colours, tall ashlar stacks, some grouped, with moulded caps. Mixed Jacobethan and "chateau" styles. Two storeys and attics, 1:1:1:1:1 bays, predominantly 2 and 3 light stone mullion and transom windows; first, third, and fifth bays projecting; the fifth in an oriel, the third in a projecting 3 storey porch with spire and ornamental iron cresting, the first in a projecting wing with an oriel. Central porch with three-quarter Tuscan columns to each side of central semi-circular headed door opening; a niche to each side with the figure of a troubador carrying a staff with a lamp; cornice overall with urns; 3-panelled paired doors with a fanlight. Further irregular wing in conforming style projecting to left, predominantly 3-light mullioned and transomed windows; irregular wing of lower height to its left. Interior unaltered since 1856, many features including fireplaces and staircase in "chateau" style. Pierced ashlar forecourt wall comprising a series of keyed semi-circular headed arches carrying a moulded coping; central gate piers and supporting piers in a similar style, most with urn finials; paired central wrought iron gates with scrolled decoration, wreaths to centre of each carrying interlacing initials CW and DW. (Cuzners Handbook of Frome Selwood, 119-20 1867).

Listing NGR: ST7771451286

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Legacy System number:: 267139
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cuzner, , Handbook of Frome Selwood, (1867), 119-120

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.