Alcombe Hall
ALCOMBE HALL, BIRCHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206967
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Alcombe Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ALCOMBE HALL, BIRCHAM ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206967
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Alcombe Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALCOMBE HALL, BIRCHAM ROAD
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:
- ALCOMBE HALL, BIRCHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Minehead
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 97740 45123
Details
MINEHEAD
SS9745 BIRCHAM ROAD, Alcombe 900-1/4/120 (South side) 04/07/52 Alcombe Hall
GV II
House, now apartments. Late C18. Render over rubblestone, double-pitch slate roof, hipped to the right with brick stacks to right valley, rear right and left party wall. Double-depth central stairhall plan with long 2-storey rear wing to the right in Brook Street. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range with 2 small C20 windows inserted in upper floors. 6/6-pane sash windows at eaves level to the second floor, 8/8-pane sashes to the first floor and 12/12-panes to the ground floor. An open pediment on brackets is over a decorated fanlight and double-panelled doors with raised and fielded panels. The rear range of the right return has one window to each floor corresponding to those at the front. The 2-storey rear wing, in Brook Street, is 3-window range with 6/6-pane sash windows at eaves level, a plate-glass sash shop window to ground-floor right with a door and window to the left. A rubblestone lean-to has two C20 garage doors. The house terminates the right end of a terrace (qv); Alcombe House (qv) terminates the left end. INTERIOR: the central hall has moulded cornice and a 6-panel door to the left; a semi-elliptical arch to the rear stairhall has reeded moulding and panelled soffit. The open-well, open-string staircase has fretted ends and a swept and wreathed mahogany rail. The ground-floor room to the left, now divided, has a stiff-leaf cornice with an ornamented ceiling band, panelled shutters and a late C19 white marble fire-surround.
Listing NGR: SS9774045123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391140
- 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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