Park House
PARK HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1058296
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Park House
- Statutory Address:
- PARK HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1058296
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Park House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK 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:
- PARK HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mells
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 71322 48682
Details
MELLS CP ST74NW OUTLYING
3/93 Park House (previously listed as Park House with adjoining out-buildings) 11.3.68
GV II*
Country house. Circa 1925, incorporating service court of C18 house, by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Reginald McKenna. Bath stone ashlar, coved eaves cornice, stone slate roof, 3 squared ashlar off ridge stacks. "U"-plan, mannerist classicism. 2-storeys and basement, 7-bays; corner Tuscan pilasters and plaster between each bay; sashes with glazing bars in reveals with slightly emphasised keystones, around floor openings with moulded sills, openings on first floor have rectangular block-like projections directly below them. Central door opening has moulded stone architrave incorporating Gibbs surround, above pulvinated frieze, broken pediment with large projecting "key", three-quarter glazed door. Returns of 4-bays. To rear, wings enclose cloistered quadrangle incorporating some retains of the earlier house; elliptical headed archways on ground floor, above window openings, those to east blank; further door opening in Gibbs surround, three-quarter glazed door. Interior has plasterwork, panelling, doors and fireplaces by Sir Herbert Jekyll.
Listing NGR: ST7132248682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 266792
- 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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