Gournay Court
GOURNAY COURT, BATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1129581
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Gournay Court
- Statutory Address:
- GOURNAY COURT, BATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1129581
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gournay Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOURNAY COURT, BATH ROAD
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:
- GOURNAY COURT, BATH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Harptree
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55987 56809
Details
ST 55 NE WEST HARPTREE BATH ROAD (south side)
5/103 Gournay Court (formerly listed as 21.9.60 Gournay Court with pair of gate piers G.V. leading to garden adjacent to West elevation House) II* Country house. Circa 1600 with c.1650 additions; further additions and restorations in 1910-13 and 1928-54. Squared and coursed red sandstone with freestone dressings, copings, slate roofs, ashlar stacks. C17 building schemes created a main block with later rear wing forming an L shaped plan. Grand symmetrical north front of 2 storeys with attics and cellar, 7 bays. All windows are ovolo cross mullions with small leaded pane casements, those to attic storey set within 4 gables and under flat hoodmoulds. Central advanced 2 storey porch with glazed bay and balcony above with strapwork balustrade. Balcony gives access to Long Gallery under a basket handled arch topped by a curvilinear gable with spoked oval window. Doorway is framed by attached Roman Doric columns and triglyph frieze over Tudor arched entrance with the Buckland and Phelips armorial shields in the spandrels. 6-light glazed bay above is flanked by Ionic columns on bases with carved scrolls proclaiming 'Alltogether Vanity'. Inside, the porch has semi-circular niches either side with seats and a 2-leaf studded plank door. Moulded plinth course, moulded stringcourses to ground and first floors, fine lead downpipes and rainwater heads, ball finials to gable ends and tall stacks set on the diagonal in 4 pairs. Range to the rear of 2 storeys with identical cross mullions and several 1910 gabled dormers. Interior. Ground floor left hand room has a Tudor arched fireplace with strapwork entablature and panelling brought from Beaudesert, Staffs. after 1932. Ground floor right hand room has a fine Tudor arched fireplace with grand strapwork overmantel. Early C17 staircase with round arched balustrade, fruit clusters and vases on newel posts and decorative pendants. Dining Room in rear wing has fireplace with stop fluted jambs and embattled mantlepiece. lst floor left hand bedroom has fine early C17 fireplace with strapwork overmantel containing royal coat of arms and caryatids, panelled walls and 1650s plaster ceiling roundel of oak leaves and ties. 4 bay Long Gallery to attic with ribbed coved roof and acorn bosses. Built by Francis Buckland. (R. Cooke, West Country Houses, 1957).
Listing NGR: ST5598756809
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32843
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cooke, R, West Country Houses, (1957)
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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