Berkley House
Berkley House, Berkley Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1058192
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Berkley House
- Statutory Address:
- Berkley House, Berkley Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1058192
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Berkley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Berkley House, Berkley Street
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:
- Berkley House, Berkley Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Berkley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 81131 49380
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 February 2022 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards
ST84NW
8/115
BERKLEY CP
BERKLEY STREET (east side)
Berkley House
11.3.68
GV
II*
Country house, mid C18. Probably designed and built by Nathaniel Ireson of Wincanton. Ashlar Doulting stone with hipped slate roofs. Basement, two storeys and attic. Symmetrical facade of seven windows arranged 2:3:2. Over central section a dentilled pediment on Ionic pilasters. Venetian window in tympanum. Central stone doorcase with pediment and entablature on two engaged Tuscan columns, rusticated door opening, fanlight and panelled door. Keyed, semi-circular headed window on each side. To side sections cornices and plain parapets, sash windows with glazing bars and internal shutters in moulded keyed architraves. Rusticated end pilasters and basement storey. Flight of five steps to door, with urns set at the angles. Five window return elevations, first floor windows have iron balconette. To the rear, a three-storey domestic range, probably C17. Rubble Doulting stone, slate roofs. Wooden casement windows in plain keyed architraves, heavy lead rain water goods-gutters with scalloped edge decoration, pipes - cast square box section with ribbing matching those to main building.
Interior not seen but said to contain a fine Hall and beyond a balustraded staircase arranged around a square, open well and containing interesting paintings, including a portrait originally believed to be of John Wood of Bath but now thought to be of Thomas Prowse, carved rococo decoration to frames of c 1750. The House belonged to the Prowse family in the C18 and was occupied for a time by Thomas Prowse who was elected five times MP for Somerset and declined the Speakership in 1761. Thomas Prowse designed Hatch Court near Taunton (qv).
(RIBA Journal, XLVI, p 536, 1939).
Listing NGR: ST8113149380
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267061
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Institute of British Architects Journal in Royal Institute of British Architects Journal, (1939), 536
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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