Chilton Cantelo House
CHILTON CANTELO HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173489
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chilton Cantelo House
- Statutory Address:
- CHILTON CANTELO HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173489
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chilton Cantelo House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHILTON CANTELO 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:
- CHILTON CANTELO HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chilton Cantelo
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 56952 22149
Details
ST52SE CHILTON CANTELO CP
4/14 Chilton Cantelo House -
GV II Manor House, now school. C18 with earlier fragments, but extended and "restored" in the 1860's leaving little original work. Local stone worked to small ashlars, with Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate roofs with Dutch gables, some parts with parapets; stone chimney stacks. Complex building, mostly in a Jacobean style; of 2-storeys with attics. Main North elevation of 7 bays, bay 6 occupied by projecting stacks, bay 7 blank. Central entrance door flanked by Doric attached columns and pilasters, with sidelights between and semi-circular fanlight over door; above a 4-light oriel style window: remaining windows of cruciform pattern; dormer windows in roof with semi-circular timber heads with pinnacles. West elevation of 5-bays with left-hand projecting gable and square 5-lights wide 2-storey bay window. The interior not seen. In C13 associated with the Cantilupes of Barwick Manor, and sundry families down to the Countess of Hertford (1729-80), then to Mrs John Old Goodford, nee Maria Phelips of Montacute: most of the Old family emigrated to the U.S.A., where they founded the Oldsmobile car manufactory: the Goodfords still resident in the village. Henry Goodford added the North extension and Hall prior to his death in 186S; the kitchen and service accommodation added by his brother, the Rector in circa 1865. It is not recorded if Sir Arthur Blomfield, restorer of the Church, directed the work, but affinities in style make this likely. (Francis Goulding, Ashington, Chilton Cantelo, Mudford - the Story of Three Somerset Parishes,1982 Truman Press, Somersetshire Country Houses and Villages, 1931-32).
Listing NGR: ST5695222149
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262626
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Somersetshire Country Houses and Villages 1931-32, (1931)
Goulding, F, Ashington Chilton Cantelo Mudford The Story of Three Somerset Parishes, (1982)
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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