THE GATEHOUSE TO QUANTOCK LODGE WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060179
Date first listed:: 15-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: THE GATEHOUSE TO QUANTOCK LODGE WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS
Statutory Address:: THE GATEHOUSE TO QUANTOCK LODGE WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS

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Date:: 2002-09-05
Reference:: IOE01/07750/27
Rights:: © Mr Terry Abbiss. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060179
Date first listed:: 15-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: THE GATEHOUSE TO QUANTOCK LODGE WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: THE GATEHOUSE TO QUANTOCK LODGE WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS

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:: THE GATEHOUSE TO QUANTOCK LODGE WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS

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 19347 37366

Details

ST13NE OVER STOWEY CP

QUANTOCK SCHOOL

1/127 The Gatehouse to Quantock Lodge with flanking quadrant walls 15.9.77 II

Gatehouse and flanking curtain walls; to Quantock Lodge, part of Quantock School. 1857 by Henry Clutton for Henry Labouchere, the lst (and only) Lord Taunton. Snecked local stone, freestone dressings, eaves bands, banded tile roofs, coped verges, crenellated returns (some merlons missing at time of re-survey January 1985), large floral finials (one missing and one broken at time of re-survey), 2 tall polygonal stacks with moulded caps. Eccentric fusion of neo-medieval styles. Single storey and attici entrance portion with front facing gable; broad segmental -headed carriageway, to each side coupled angle buttresses with offsets; lesser inner archway in conforming style with narrower pedestrian gateway; stone ribbing; oak gates with iron grilles. Gable face with 2 barred leaded windows flanking a canopied achievement. Lodge to left, 2-light stone-mullioned window with drip and quatrefoil window with leaded lights. Section of curved curtain wall to each side. An important roadside feature.

Listing NGR: ST1934737366

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Legacy System number:: 269389
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.