Quantock Lodge and Forecourt
QUANTOCK LODGE AND FORECOURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060178
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Quantock Lodge and Forecourt
- Statutory Address:
- QUANTOCK LODGE AND FORECOURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060178
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Quantock Lodge and Forecourt
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUANTOCK LODGE AND FORECOURT
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:
- QUANTOCK LODGE AND FORECOURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Over Stowey
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 18790 37512
Details
ST13NE OVER STOWEY CP QUANTOCK SCHOOL
Quantock Lodge and forecourt 1/125 (previously listed as Quantock School) 15.9.77
GV II
Country house with walled forecourt in wooded grounds, now part of Quantock School. Dated on a stone plaque in porch 1857; by Henry Clutton for Henry Labouchere, 1st (and only) Lord Taunton. Some addition of c1864; C20 internal alteration and classroom block to north- west. Snecked local stone, chamfered plinth, bevelled cill-strings, moulded cornices, gables, principal ones shaped, tile roofs with occasional parapets and crenellation, hipped breaks to south-east and south west, finials, off-ridge ashlar stacks with chamfered corners, roughly central crenellated octagonal turret with ogee lantern. Free Tudor style; determined asymmetry on a basically L-plan; bow and bay windows. Two storeys and attics, stone mullioned windows, some with transoms, most with 4-centred arch heads; 2 or more lights; some leaded lights and some stained glass. Main entrance to north in a projecting 2 storey porch, 3-centred archway, paired plank doors. Terraced forecourt with irregularly coursed and squared rubble retaining walls, pierced ashlar and rubble parapets with dressed copings; to west a mock-medieval gateway, entrance arch with achievement set over, plank gates, tile hood; opposite main entrance to house a flight of stone steps lead down to a sunken throughway, paired wrought- iron gates. Interior in elaborate mix of medieval and Tudor styles; tile floors; coffered and ornamental plaster ceilings; oak open well staircase; fireplaces, many with fine chimneypieces and overmantels; library with shelving.
Listing NGR: ST1878237507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269387
- 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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