Plox House
PLOX HOUSE, PLOX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176216
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Plox House
- Statutory Address:
- PLOX HOUSE, PLOX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176216
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Plox House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLOX HOUSE, PLOX
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:
- PLOX HOUSE, PLOX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bruton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 68360 34785
Details
BRUTON CP PLOX (North West side) ST6834NW 8/146 Plox House 24.3.61 GV II
House, now part of King's School. Dated 1687. Local stone with pebbledash rendering; stone slate roof with plain gables; stone and brick chimney stacks. Plain roof with twin rear gables, at right angles to street. 2 storeys with attic; street elevation of 2 bays with plain gable to left; stone plaque in gable reads "A/TM/1687"; cruciform timber windows to upper level both bays, and to bay 1 a simple doorway with door in Gothic style, and over an early C20 timber hood on wood brackets on stone corbels; in the roof a single hipped roof dormer to bay 2. West facade of 3 bays, with 12-pane sash windows in plain surrounds, with low part glazed door in heavy frame to right of bay 3. A lower matching 3-bay extension to North. Interior not seen, but a report speaks of a fine C17 stair in an open well in one of the East gables, the newel posts having finials and pendents; some door frames said to be in transitional phase between ovolo and bolection mouldings. Became school premises in 1902, first as Junior School, then in 1947 as part of senior school. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972; VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1975).
Listing NGR: ST6836034785
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261619
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, (1972)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1975)
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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