Abbey House
Abbey House, Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury, BA6 8DH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167617
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey House
- Statutory Address:
- Abbey House, Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury, BA6 8DH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167617
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Abbey House, Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury, BA6 8DH
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:
- Abbey House, Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury, BA6 8DH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Glastonbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 50242 38861
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/03/2020
863/8/69
CHILKWELL STREET (Southwest side)
Abbey House
(Formerly listed as The Abbey Retreat House, previously listed as CHILKWELL STREET Abbey House)
20-JUN-73
GV
II*
House, 1829-30; by John Buckler, for John Reeves. Altered and extended circa 1850-60; altered 1957. Tudor Gothic.
Two storeys plus attics in gables. Freestone. Three gabled bays come forward, the central bay with entrance. Moulded cornice. Crenellated parapets. Slate roof. Clustered stacks. Stringcourse. Moulded plinth. Six mullioned and transomed windows of two and three lights with arched heads, all in square hoodmoulds. Central first floor window has carved corbel in form of an oriel. Four-centred arched doorway with carved spandrels. Double doors under porch. Lower two storey four window wing to right. Attached to north side of the house the service wing was extended into a small stable yard in about 1850-60.
INTERIOR largely intact, including Tudor style panelled doors in moulded doorcases, moulded plaster ceiling cornices and friezes, panelled window shutters, chimneypieces and original cantilevered main staircase with a Gothick cast-iron balustrade and servants' stairs with stick balusters. In 1957 the drawing room was converted into a chapel and the window on the east side was blocked.
Abbey House, Glastonbury Abbey (see Magdalene Street), Wall around grounds of the Abbey and Abbey House, and the listed buildings from No 3 to No 17 Chilkwell Street (north east side), all form an important group.
NOTE: In 1825-6 the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey were bought by John Reeves, who commissioned John Buckler to design this house, which was built in 1829-30 with the ruins of the Abbey in the grounds.
An early example of the Tudor Gothic style, designed by the architect and antiquarian draughtsman, John Buckler.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265893
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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