Nettlecombe Cottage, About 125 Metres North of Leonard Wills Field Centre
NETTLECOMBE COTTAGE, ABOUT 125 METRES NORTH OF LEONARD WILLS FIELD CENTRE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173889
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Nettlecombe Cottage, About 125 Metres North of Leonard Wills Field Centre
- Statutory Address:
- NETTLECOMBE COTTAGE, ABOUT 125 METRES NORTH OF LEONARD WILLS FIELD CENTRE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173889
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Nettlecombe Cottage, About 125 Metres North of Leonard Wills Field Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- NETTLECOMBE COTTAGE, ABOUT 125 METRES NORTH OF LEONARD WILLS FIELD CENTRE
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:
- NETTLECOMBE COTTAGE, ABOUT 125 METRES NORTH OF LEONARD WILLS FIELD CENTRE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nettlecombe
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 05708 37935
Details
ST03NE NETTLECOMBE CP
5/35 Nettlecombe Cottage, about 125 metres North of Leonard Wills Field Centre
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GV II
Cottage and attached outbuildings. Circa 1820 enlargement of earlier building. Probably by Richard Carver. Red sandstone random rubble, roughcast East front - main elevation. Slate roof, hipped West end, tall brick stacks South East corner and in North front. East front, two and a half storeys with one and a half storey wings, gabled parapets with ball finials, central block lancet in gable end, first floor 3-light mullioned casement with hood mould, ground floor canted 4-light bay window, bolt with leaded panes wings symmetrical lancet in gable ends, moulded pointed arch openings under square hood moulds, right wing approached by short flight of steps, probably with doors on inner returns main entrance on left return (South front) pointed arch entrance set in earlier segmental headed opening, plank door. South front with 7 bay frontage including 3 blocked windows right of arched carriageway entrance and unlit first floor 2 bays, left. North front, two 2 storey gabled wings with outshuts between. Interior not viewed. This was probably the stables to Nettlecombe Court, now the Leonard Wills Field Centre (qv), before the new block was built by Sir John Trevelyan in 1792 and may date from the enlargements of the C17.
Listing NGR: ST0570837935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264793
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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