Paulet House (Formerly Known As Church Close)
PAULET HOUSE (FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHURCH CLOSE)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1058949
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Paulet House (Formerly Known As Church Close)
- Statutory Address:
- PAULET HOUSE (FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHURCH CLOSE)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1058949
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Mar-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Paulet House (Formerly Known As Church Close)
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAULET HOUSE (FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHURCH CLOSE)
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:
- PAULET HOUSE (FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHURCH CLOSE)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Goathurst
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 25674 34376
Details
GOATHURST
ST23SE GOATHURST VILLAGE
1873/7/37 PAULET HOUSE [FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHURCH
29-MAR-63 CLOSE]
(Formerly listed as:
GOATHURST VILLAGE
DOWER HOUSE AND CHURCH CLOSE)
GV II*
GOATHURST
ST23SE GOATHURST VILLAGE
1873/7/37 PAULET HOUSE [formerly known as CHURCH
29-MAR-63 CLOSE]
(Formerly listed as:
GOATHURST VILLAGE
Dower House and Church Close)
GV II*
House, formerly rectory. Circa early C15; altered C17 and C18; remodelled and extended circa 1871. Stuccoed stone with rusticated quoins. Slate gable-ended and hipped roofs with cresting to ridges. Brick stacks with cornices.
PLAN: Hall of the Medieval house remains at right [N] end, still open, but its roof concealed by C17 plaster ceiling; cross-passage on left. In about 1871 the house was remodelled, the cross-passage was retained as main entrance, leading to a large stairhall added at the back and a drawing room was built behind the hall; the stairhall and drawing room replace an earlier range at the rear. The lower left [S] end of the house was rebuilt in the mid-late C19 as the service end of the Victorian house and is now a separate house, separately listed as Dower House.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. East front with single-storey hall on right with steeply-pitched gable-ended roof, two large sashes with margin glazing bars and Roman Doric portico to C18 panelled and glazed pointed arch door with thick ogee glazing bars; 2 storeys on left, end bay of adjoining Dower House [qv]. Rear [W] 2 storeys, asymmetrical 2:1:2 bays, projecting with hipped roof on left and gabled on right with rusticated quoins, bands, cambered head sash windows with margin glazing bars and canted bay window on right; centre recessed, with large stone stair window with three round-headed lights, transom and with cornice above.
INTERIOR: Cross-passage leads to Victorian arcaded hall with tiled floor and open-well staircase with wreathed handrail and twisted balusters; Victorian drawing room with moulded plaster ceiling and marble chimneypiece. Medieval hall has C17 barrel vaulted plaster ceiling with coving, heavy moulded cornice and at either end a large moulded plaster achievement of arms to Paulet family. Above the hall ceiling a circa early C15 roof: at least four bays in length, all heavily smoke-blackened; chamfered arch-braced trusses, the principals cusped above the collars, and intermediate trusses with higher arch-braced collars; large tenoned purlins, two tiers of curved wind-braces and intact common-rafters.
Listing NGR: ST2567434374
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269297
- 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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