PARK HOUSE

PARK HOUSE, FORUM LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1172922
Date first listed:: 20-May-1952
List Entry Name:: PARK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: PARK HOUSE, FORUM LANE

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Date:: 2007-08-03
Reference:: IOE01/16852/10
Rights:: © Mr Michael Perry. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1172922
Date first listed:: 20-May-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: PARK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PARK HOUSE, FORUM LANE

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:: PARK HOUSE, FORUM LANE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shepton Mallet
National Grid Reference:: ST 61219 44090

Details

ST64SW SHEPTON MALLET CP FORUM LANE (East side) BOWLISH

4/113 Park House (previously listed as No 2 Bowlish)

20.5.52

- II*

House. Circa 1700, modified c1750. Rubble construction, rendered and scribed as ashlar, slate roof, dressed stone stacks with mouldings around base and caps. Rectangular on plan with segmental bow stairwell to rear. Symmetrical facade. 2-storeys, 5-bays, sashes with glazing bars in moulded stone architraves. Moulded stone doorcase with semi-circular head, flanked by Tuscan columns supporting open triangular pediment, one triglyph above each column. 6-panelled door with fanlight. Moulded stone eaves cornice, end pilasters. Hipped roof with 3 flat-head dormers. Left return shows evidence of earlier fenestration, 5 blocked openings. Continuous string course at head level of ground floor windows. Keystones of first floor windows run into cornice. Similar treatment to rear, which also has tall semi-circular head stairlight. Fine contemporary panelling to hall, original fireplaces in rooms flanking hall, staircase to rear.

Listing NGR: ST6121944090

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 266511
Legacy System:: LBS

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