BABINGTON HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1177567
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: BABINGTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BABINGTON HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1177567
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: BABINGTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BABINGTON HOUSE

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:: BABINGTON HOUSE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kilmersdon
National Grid Reference:: ST7043651057

Details

KILMERSDON CP ST75SW 6/141 11.3.68

BABINGTON Babington House

GV II*

Country House in landscaped grounds. Circa 1705 for Henry Mompesson; altered and extended, dated on rainwater head:- "l790", for Captain Charles Knatchbull, possibly by John Pinch, further C19 work. Coursed and squared rubble, freestone dressings, plinth, lintel band, rusticated alternating quoins, dentil cornice, plain parapet with a coping, hipped concrete tile roof, some flat-roofed dormers with sash windows to returns, ashlar stacks. Roughly rectangular on plan, with a central light-well, north front with bow. Symmetrical early Georgian front. Basement, 2 storeys and attic, 7 bays, 12-pane sash windows in moulded architraves, to ground floor with cornice drips. Central door opening with bolection moulded architrave, semi-circular stone shell hood on brackets with enrichment; three-quarter glazed door. Large 2-storey, 3 window bow to north front, 12-pane sash windows. Seven-bay south front, entrance projects with a Gothick door opening. Single storey service wing at rear. Interior with important features; hall with ceiling with ornamental plasterwork, stair-case with turned and twisted balusters, dado panelling, doors in bolection moulded surrounds; dining room with ornamental plasterwork, doorcases and chimneypiece; first floor drawing room also richly decorated; further features including chimneypieces, ornamental plasterwork, panelling and re-used medieval glass. It is believed that the building stands on C17 foundations. (Country Life, 16 April 1943).

Listing NGR: ST7043651057

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Legacy System number:: 267924
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 16 April, (1943)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 Somerset,

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