PYRLAND HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1176079
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: PYRLAND HALL
Statutory Address:: PYRLAND HALL

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Date:: 2002-12-05
Reference:: IOE01/09407/01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1176079
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: PYRLAND HALL
Statutory Address 1:: PYRLAND HALL

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:: PYRLAND HALL

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cheddon Fitzpaine
National Grid Reference:: ST 22720 27623

Details

ST22NW CHEDDON FITZPAINE CP PYRLAND

5/57 Pyrland Hall

25.2.55 II*

Country house, now boys preparatory school. Circa 1760 for Sir William Yea. Render grooved as ashlar over brick, Bath stone dressings, brick service courtyard at rear, hipped slate roofs behind parapet, cavetto moulded cornice, flat band string course, cyma recta moulded cornice to wings. Main block with projecting single storeys one room wings linked by Ionic colonnade, service courtyard at rear. Neo-Classical style. 3 storeys, 5 bays, centre 3 break forward slightly single bay, single storey projecting wings, second floor 4-pane sash windows centre, tripartite in outer bays, first floor similar but sash windows without glazing bars, ground floor windows renewed C20, tripartile sash windows in outer bays, 9-bay Ionic, Bath stone colonnade with dentil cornice and boarded soffit fronting 4 and 2-light mullioned and transomed windows flanking central half glazed double door. Interior: hall, Ionic screen, dado and good plasterwork cornices, imperial plan stick stair with cut string and inlaid mahogany handrail, plasterwork decoration to soffits in Greek style, Venetian window on landing and decorative plasterwork to circular skylight; notable number of original panelled doors, except those to headmaster's study and library in entrance hall; Adam-style plasterwork in wings, right hand wing contains good marble chimney piece. The Yea estates were sold 1911 and the building was sympathetically converted to school use circa 1953. (AJ Monday, The History of the Family of Yea, 1885).

Listing NGR: ST2272027623

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Legacy System number:: 270566
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Monday, A J, The History of Yea, (1885)

Legal

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