Abbotsfield

ABBOTSFIELD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1177635
Date first listed:
11-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:
Abbotsfield
Statutory Address:
ABBOTSFIELD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1177635
Date first listed:
11-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:
Abbotsfield
Statutory Address 1:
ABBOTSFIELD

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ABBOTSFIELD

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wiveliscombe
National Grid Reference:
ST 07250 27871

Details

ST02NE WIVELISCOMBE WITHOUT CP

3/120 Abbotsfield

11.7.75

- II

Country House, now flats. Circa 1872. Architect Owen Jones, for Lacey Collard, piano manufacturer. Squared red sandstone rubble masonry, with white limestone dressings, quoins, dentil cornice, West Somerset slate roof. Entrance facade: 3 bay single storey block, central porch, gabled Y tracery dormers, 2 storey gabled bay left with acroteria as finials, and coping stones. 3 and a half storey pyramid-roof staircase tower to right, 2 and 3 light mullioned and transomed windows. Ballroom wing with rondel in gable projects forward right, 2 storey L-shaped servants block with stables beyond to left. Garden facade: 4 bay loggia with balustrade and gabled Y-tracery dormers above, between 2 storey gabled wings with splayed bay windows at ground floor, conservatory to left. Remarkably eclectic detailing. Interior not of interest. One of the few buildings designed by Owen Jones, the influential Victorian design theorist; and the only one surviving.

Listing NGR: ST0725027871

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
270202
Legacy System:
LBS

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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