CHIPLEY PARK AND WALL ABUTTING SOUTH EAST CORNER WITH GATEPIER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060314
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: CHIPLEY PARK AND WALL ABUTTING SOUTH EAST CORNER WITH GATEPIER
Statutory Address:: CHIPLEY PARK AND WALL ABUTTING SOUTH EAST CORNER WITH GATEPIER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060314
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: CHIPLEY PARK AND WALL ABUTTING SOUTH EAST CORNER WITH GATEPIER
Statutory Address 1:: CHIPLEY PARK AND WALL ABUTTING SOUTH EAST CORNER WITH GATEPIER

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:: CHIPLEY PARK AND WALL ABUTTING SOUTH EAST CORNER WITH GATEPIER

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Nynehead
National Grid Reference:: ST 11685 23754

Details

NYNEHEAD CP ST12SW CHIPLEY PARK 4/61 Chipley Park and wall abutting south-east corner with gatepier 25.1.56 GV II Stables of Chipley Park, (original house demolished), now dwelling. Late C17-early C18, converted to dwelling C20. Red brick, Flemish bond, red sandstone random rubble plinth, moulded ashlar dado, flat brick continuous string course, hipped slate roofs, coped verges to gables, brick stacks in end 2 bays left, and rising from eaves right. Plan: stable range facing south, originally entered on north front, rebuilt and extended C20 with detached carriageway east end linked by C20 brick gallery, wall with gatepiers at south-east corner. One and a half storeys, 2 gabled bays left,5-bay centre, gabled end bay right, first floor corridor linking one bay beyond gabled dormers centre, early C18 leaded in second gable end left, loft door with C20 window centre end bay left, three C20 casements flanking central inserted doorway with keystone and half glazed C20 door; end bay right partly rebuilt, blocked gable end opening, window opening left, extensively rebuilt in C20 at rear. Interior not seen. Red brick, Flemish bond wall with clay tile coping about 20m in length swept down to square gatepier, moulded brick cap plinth and bell finial,semi-circular headed doorway to walled garden, hood mould additions with imported face terminal of king and queen. The original house abutted to the south-west with the walled garden (qv) behind. The 1840 tithe map shows that the east front was enclosed by walls with gatepiers of which the above remains. The house was probably built by Edward Clarke, a friend of the philosopher John Locke, at it descended by marriage to the Sandfords of Nynehead Court (qv). The house was apparently demolished in the late C19. It does not appear in Escott's photograph of the present house c1910.(Escott, Somerset: Historical, Descriptive, 1910)

Listing NGR: ST1168523754

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Legacy System number:: 271003
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Escott, T, Somerset Historical and Descriptive, (1910)

Legal

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