REMAINS OF GATES AND GATE PIERS ABUTTING EAST CORNER OF POUNDISFORD LODGE AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN, CONTINUED SOUTH EAST TO GARDEN HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060306
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF GATES AND GATE PIERS ABUTTING EAST CORNER OF POUNDISFORD LODGE AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN, CONTINUED SOUTH EAST TO GARDEN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF GATES AND GATE PIERS ABUTTING EAST CORNER OF POUNDISFORD LODGE AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN, CONTINUED SOUTH EAST TO GARDEN HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060306
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF GATES AND GATE PIERS ABUTTING EAST CORNER OF POUNDISFORD LODGE AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN, CONTINUED SOUTH EAST TO GARDEN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: REMAINS OF GATES AND GATE PIERS ABUTTING EAST CORNER OF POUNDISFORD LODGE AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN, CONTINUED SOUTH EAST TO GARDEN HOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: REMAINS OF GATES AND GATE PIERS ABUTTING EAST CORNER OF POUNDISFORD LODGE AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN, CONTINUED SOUTH EAST TO GARDEN HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pitminster
National Grid Reference:: ST2229920833

Details

ST22SW 6/208

PITMINSTER CP POUNDISFORD Remains of gates and gate piers abutting east corner of Poundisford Lodge and walls enclosing garden, continued south-east to Garden House

GV II

Gatepiers and walls, C18; remains of gates c1900. Walls red brick, Flemish bond, brick coping, pilaster buttresses.Gatepiers, red brick, square in plan, moulded plinths and cornices, stone ball finials. Gates, painted wood, double with 2 raised and fielded dado panels and dowelled slats forming a grill, tie beam above linking gatepiers, but gates now in pieces and very poor condition at time of survey (April 1985). Illustrated in Country Life, (see below).Plan:gatepiers abutting east with ruins of former green houses, returned north around garden (not sighted internally), the northern wall of which flanks the drive to Poundisford Lodge with the Stables (qv) opposite. later wall (not included in this list) stands below the east wall parallel with the public road. Garden wall continued south to Garden House (qv), This eastern length of wall in fact follows a line north-north-west by south-south-east along the contours of the Park Pale which enclosed the medieval deer park of the episcopal castle of Taunton, (Country Life, June 24, 1916).

Listing NGR: ST2229920833

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Legacy System number:: 271084
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Country Life' in 24 June, (1916)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.