Poundisford Park
POUNDISFORD PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1060307
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Poundisford Park
- Statutory Address:
- POUNDISFORD PARK
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- Date:
- 2006-03-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/15106/25
- Rights:
- © Mr Michael Perry. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1060307
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Poundisford Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- POUNDISFORD PARK
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:
- POUNDISFORD PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pitminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 22270 20202
Details
ST22SW
6/143
PITMINSTER CP,
POUNDISFORD,
Poundisford Park
25.2.55
GV I
Manor house, former detached kitchen now part of service courtyard, stable range.
House and kitchen c1550 for William Hill, dining room wing added c1693, stable,
coach house and barn dated 1717, service wing 1825. Roughcast over rubble, rubble plinth,
exposed quoins, slate roofs, coped verges, ashlar stone stacks gable ends and centre.
H-plan with entrance now on south front, north-east dining room wing, south-east service
wing extending east to form south side of service courtyard, stable range east and
former kitchen west. South front: 2 and a half storeys, all Tudor arch head
hollow chamfered mullioned windows under hoodmoulds, irregular C19 fenestration gable
ends, 3-bay centre, left gable end 2 single light windows under hoodmoulds, left one
blocked, centre 3-light gabled windows flanking central rebuilt wall stack above
quatrefoil pierced parapet, right gable single light, first floor centre 3-light windows
flanking irregularly placed lancet and stair light, crested lead guttering and fine rain
water head centre below gargoyle emptying into lead rainwater cistern dated 1671, left
gable end unlit, centre 3-light window left, right Tudor arch head doorway with
decorative spandrels to internal porch, moulded inner doorway: single bay re-entrant
angle, right, left lit on each floor but originally 2-bay, now with blocked original
windows on each floor and Tudor arch head doorway with C16 door, North front diagonal
buttresses and 3-bay dining room with 12-pane sash windows, Interior:
outstanding collection of original features and fittings. Screens passage with unusual
turned baluster columns reminiscent of the window mullions at Cothelstone (qv),
hexagonal lantern inserted and C17 doorways with coved cornice to closed gallery above
with mullioned window. Ribbed plasterwork ceiling to hall with pendants and frieze, plasterwork
Royal Coat of Arms at dais end, fine collection of late C16 and mid-late C17 plasterwork ceilings
and cornices throughout house. C16 panelling to hall, moulded surrounds to fireplace and
opening to stair turret adjoining, and oriels. C18 panelling in dining room with coeval
cornice and chimney piece. Former detached kitchen, subsequently laundry, now restaurant;
large bressumer beam to fireplace, partially cut and with inserted bread oven. Barn abutting
converted to dwelling with stable and coach house range returned on east front dated 1717 in
south gable end, The Hill family who built this house also were responsible for Poundisford Lodge
lqv) to the north, both were built within the confines of Poundisford deer park that belonged to
the episcopal castle of Taunton until the Dissolution.
(Photographs in (Xii Country Life, June 17, 1916; August 4 and 11, 1934).
Listing NGR: ST2227020202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271086
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 11 August, (1934)
Country Life in 17 June, (1916)
Country Life in 4 August, (1934)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 Somerset,
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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