Hestercombe House
HESTERCOMBE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060513
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hestercombe House
- Statutory Address:
- HESTERCOMBE HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060513
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hestercombe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HESTERCOMBE HOUSE
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:
- HESTERCOMBE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cheddon Fitzpaine
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 24150 28723
Details
ST22NW CHEDDON FITZPAINE CP HESTERCOMBE
5/48 Hestercombe House
GV II*
Country house, now fire brigade headquarters. Some C16 work remaining, subsequent C18 enlargement and alterations no longer visible beneath circa 1875 refronting and enlargement. C19 work for Viscount Portean. Ashlar Ham stone, gabled cross wings and central pedimented block breaking forward, slate roofs, mansard roof to tower. L-plan entrance front (West) with North West tower, long South front with service wing. Italian Villa style with French renaissance and Greek details. Two storeys with attic and basement, 3 storey centre, 4 stage tower, 2:3::2:3 bays; Symmetrical West front apart from canted bay ground floor left, sash windows without glazing bars, flat roofed Doric porch with paired pilasters and Doric columns, half glazed double doors with side-lights. Miscellaneous South front, evidence of blocked mullioned windows on South East gable end. Interior: C16 moulded arch in North West crosswing, 1870s plasterwork to coved stair ceiling, and in reception rooms with coeval panelling and chimney pieces. This was the home of the gentleman architect Coplestone Warre Bamfylde, died 1791, who extensively improved the grounds. When Edwin Lutyens laid out the gardens (qv), the South front was completely covered with creeper and formed a sympathetic backdrop to the gardens now lacking. (Photographs in NMR: Country Life, October 10th and 17th, 1908).
Listing NGR: ST2415028723
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270556
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 10 October, (1908)
Country Life in 17 October, (1908)
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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