Shapwick House Hotel the Granary
SHAPWICK HOUSE HOTEL, 7, MONKS DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190480
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Shapwick House Hotel the Granary
- Statutory Address:
- SHAPWICK HOUSE HOTEL, 7, MONKS DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190480
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Shapwick House Hotel the Granary
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHAPWICK HOUSE HOTEL, 7, MONKS DRIVE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE GRANARY, 6, MONKS DRIVE
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:
- SHAPWICK HOUSE HOTEL, 7, MONKS DRIVE
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRANARY, 6, MONKS DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shapwick
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 41672 38772
Details
ST43NW SHAPWICK CP MONKS DRIVE (North side)
2/23 Nos. 6 and 7 (The Granary and Shapwick House Hotel) (formerly listed as Shapwick House)
29.3.63
GV II*
Country house in landscaped grounds, now hotel with portion of service wing used as a separate dwelling. 1630 for Sir Henry Rolle, Chief Justice to Charles I; much altered late C18 for George Templar; clock tower with date:- "1865" marking restoration for H. B. Strangways, probably by George Gilbert Scott. Coursed and squared blue lias rubble, slate roofs, coped verges some with ball finials, exposed chimney breasts to each return, capping ashlar stacks set diagonally in groups of 3. Jacobean with plain C18 modifications, particularly on the entrance frontage, E-plan. Three storeys and 2 storeys and attic, 1:1:1:1:1 bays; those to each side in projecting wings with front facing gables, paired 12 and 18-pane sash windows with central dividing mullions in shallow full height canted bays with ogee-shaped lead roofs; remainder of openings with 18-pane sash windows except 2-light ovolo moulded stone-mullioned windows in half dormers to second floor. Central slender 3-storey projecting gabled porch, 3-light ovolo-moulded stone mullioned windows, that to first floor double transomed; elaborate doorcase of dressed stone, moulded and keyed with a semi-circular head, spandrels with acanthus enrichment, triglyph frieze, Doric pilasters, moulded cornice, 3 ball finials; paired C20 doors. Attached domestic wing to left return; salient feature the arcaded wooden bellcote with ogee-shaped lead dome and windvane, standing on projecting clock tower with offset; 2, 3 and 4-light stone-mullioned windows, some transomed, 2 to left in half-dormers, some C20 refenestration. Two large 7-light canted bays to rear. Interior predominantly of the late C18; hall on flag floor, marble fireplace with colonnettes incorporating cast-iron fireback dated:- "1727"; right ground floor room with panelling and fireplace; open well staircase with ramped handrail, secondary lesser staircase; further features of note including ornamental plasterwork; dado panelling; doors and window shutters; C17 fireplace to first floor; reused C17 panelling to rear room on ground floor.
Listing NGR: ST4164038779
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269251
- 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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