Bickham and Walls Enclosing Garden on North East Front
BICKHAM AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN ON NORTH EAST FRONT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175200
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Bickham and Walls Enclosing Garden on North East Front
- Statutory Address:
- BICKHAM AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN ON NORTH EAST FRONT
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- Date:
- 1999-11-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/00049/05
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175200
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Bickham and Walls Enclosing Garden on North East Front
- Statutory Address 1:
- BICKHAM AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN ON NORTH EAST FRONT
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:
- BICKHAM AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN ON NORTH EAST FRONT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Timberscombe
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95027 41789
Details
SS94SE TlMBERSCOMBE CP TIMBERSCOMBE VILLAGE
7/101 Bickham and walls enclosing garden on north-east front
22.5.69
- II
Manor house. Part of the medieval manor and chapel may be incorporated into the C17 L-plan house, west wing added C18, reroofed, enlarged on south west front early C20 and house roughcast, Roughcast over rubble, plinth to east wing and centre block, slate roofs, gabled fronted overhanging eaves, large external stacks to kitchen gable end and to west gable end. Tall early C20 roughcast stacks. Plan: irregular U-plan; probably 3-cell and cross passage with cross wing, corridor inserted on north west front when entrance resited and balancing cross wing added; facing north west with 2-bay loggia right and walls enclosing garden left. north west front: 2 storeys with attic, 2:3:2 bays, irregularly gabled centre, gabled wings, glazed roundels gable ends, others all 12-pane sash windows, empty semi-circular headed niche above central entrance, 3 X 4 panel door with raised surrounds, early C20 flat roofed porch carried on shaped brackets with dentil moulded cornice, 4 curved stops. To right catslide roof with dormer over 2 bay loggia, right return similarly gabled and fenestrated, 2 windows first floor, 3 ground floor. Rear elevation 2:5 bays, gable end left, irregularly placed 12-pane sash windows, C18 door to cross passage between second and third bays right. Interior: partially viewed. Main feature of interest is dogleg stair with mid-late C18 Chinese Chippendale style dog-gate and short section of balustrade between colonnettes, moulded surround with keystone to semi-circular arched opening to stairwell. Reset t16 panelling with frieze in room beyond. Wall enclosing garden on north east front including 2 bay structure abutting house, red sandstone random rubble, about 3 metres high. This was the home of the Elsworth family one of whom, Richard, endowed the school (not included) at Timberscombe, commemorated by a handsome plaque on the subsequently altered building. The chest tomb of William Withycombe (qv) of Bickham is in the churchyard of St John the Baptist, Carhampton CP. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: SS9502741789
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265384
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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