WALLING AND PIERS TO EAST SIDE OF FORMER STABLE YARD OF HALSWELL HOUSE, LEAN TO AT REAR, PART CONVERTED TO DWELLING, (GRASSBY)

WALLING AND PIERS TO EAST SIDE OF FORMER STABLE YARD OF HALSWELL HOUSE, LEAN TO AT REAR, PART CONVERTED TO DWELLING, (GRASSBY), HALSWELL PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177530
Date first listed:: 27-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: WALLING AND PIERS TO EAST SIDE OF FORMER STABLE YARD OF HALSWELL HOUSE, LEAN TO AT REAR, PART CONVERTED TO DWELLING, (GRASSBY)
Statutory Address:: WALLING AND PIERS TO EAST SIDE OF FORMER STABLE YARD OF HALSWELL HOUSE, LEAN TO AT REAR, PART CONVERTED TO DWELLING, (GRASSBY), HALSWELL PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177530
Date first listed:: 27-Jul-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: WALLING AND PIERS TO EAST SIDE OF FORMER STABLE YARD OF HALSWELL HOUSE, LEAN TO AT REAR, PART CONVERTED TO DWELLING, (GRASSBY)
Statutory Address 1:: WALLING AND PIERS TO EAST SIDE OF FORMER STABLE YARD OF HALSWELL HOUSE, LEAN TO AT REAR, PART CONVERTED TO DWELLING, (GRASSBY), HALSWELL PARK

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:: WALLING AND PIERS TO EAST SIDE OF FORMER STABLE YARD OF HALSWELL HOUSE, LEAN TO AT REAR, PART CONVERTED TO DWELLING, (GRASSBY), HALSWELL PARK

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Goathurst
National Grid Reference:: ST 25374 33716

Details

ST23SE GOATHURST CP HALSWELL PARK

7/41 Walling and piers to East side of former stable yard of Halswell House, lean-to at rear, part converted to dwelling, (Grassby) (formerly listed with Dovecote) 28.7.50

GV II

Walling and piers with lean-to at rear, part of which is now dwelling. C18. High Flemish bond brick wall, approximately 50 metres long, dressed stone coping divided into 11 bays by blind semi-circular headed recesses forming an arcade, emphasised imposts; central recess with broad pilasters to each side and pierced by a door opening, panelled door with a moulded slab hood on cut brackets; moulded crowning cornice. Giant rusticated brick gate piers to each end with moulded stone caps. Along the rear of the wall a single storey lean-to, part of which has been converted to a dwelling, necessitating the right 5 recesses on frontage being pierced by mid C20 one, 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars. Further short section of walling to left of left gateway, some crenellated capping. (Pevsner N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958; Country Life, November 21 1908; Collinson, Somerset I, 1791; VCH Somerset II, 1911; Garden History V, 3 1977, 27; Jones B, Follies and Grottoes, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST2537433716

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Legacy System number:: 269303
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Collinson, J, History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, (1791)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1911)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
'Country Life' in 21 November, (1908)
'Garden History' in Number 5, (1977)
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.