Castle House With Adjoining Wings Gate Cottage
CASTLE HOUSE WITH ADJOINING WINGS, ENMORE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177302
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Castle House With Adjoining Wings Gate Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE HOUSE WITH ADJOINING WINGS, ENMORE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177302
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Castle House With Adjoining Wings Gate Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE HOUSE WITH ADJOINING WINGS, ENMORE ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- GATE COTTAGE, ENMORE ROAD
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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:
- CASTLE HOUSE WITH ADJOINING WINGS, ENMORE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- GATE COTTAGE, ENMORE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Enmore
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 24386 34897
Details
ST23SW ENMORE CP ENMORE ROAD (South side)
6/27 Nos. 1 and 2 Castle House with adjoining outbuilding wings (left hand wing separately owned and named Gate Cottage) (previously listed as Castle House and adjoining outbuildings) 29.3.63 II*
Inn with adjoining outbuilding wings; now divided into 2 dwellings, one wing separately owned and converted to a further dwelling. Inn early/mid C18; wings added c1779; C20 alteration, particularly interiors. Rubble, freestone dressings including bands at first and second floor level, M- shaped tile mansard roof with coped verges, copings, brick ridge stacks. Symmetrical frontage; 2 storeys with centre pedimented 3-storey projecting porch with ridge at right-angles to frontage; 2:1:2 bays, 12-pane sash windows, exposed sash boxes, brick voussoirs, freestone keys to ground floor openings; 4-pane casement to second floor of porch. Wide semi-circular headed porch opening with emphasised key and imposts, inner doorway with late C20 glazed door. Contiguous single-storeyed flanking wings, embattled parapets; each with an arcade of 5 openings, semi-circular heads with brick voussoirs, emphasised keys and imposts, small blank circular opening between each arch, one missing. Arcade blank except for central opening on each side which is slightly larger, giving onto a yard each side of inn; enclosed by further sections of rubble-walling, that to right with circular openings echoing those on frontage. Yard to left with outbuilding at right angles to frontage, lean-to triple-Roman tile roof, arcade of openings in conforming style, one altered, some blank. Some late C20 alteration to extreme left including insertion of C20 metal casements and raising of battlements forming Gate Cottage. Attached to rear of No. 2 (Castle House) a single-storey rubble outbuilding with Baroque gables. Interior of No. 2 stated to have an early staircase; No. 1 with some window shutters. (Pevsner N., Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST2438634897
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269286
- 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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