GAZEBO, STEPS, TERRACES AND WALLS TO NORTH WEST OF MEREFIELD HOUSE

GAZEBO, STEPS, TERRACES AND WALLS TO NORTH WEST OF MEREFIELD HOUSE, EAST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1208228
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: GAZEBO, STEPS, TERRACES AND WALLS TO NORTH WEST OF MEREFIELD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GAZEBO, STEPS, TERRACES AND WALLS TO NORTH WEST OF MEREFIELD HOUSE, EAST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1208228
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: GAZEBO, STEPS, TERRACES AND WALLS TO NORTH WEST OF MEREFIELD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GAZEBO, STEPS, TERRACES AND WALLS TO NORTH WEST OF MEREFIELD HOUSE, EAST STREET

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:: GAZEBO, STEPS, TERRACES AND WALLS TO NORTH WEST OF MEREFIELD HOUSE, EAST STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Crewkerne
National Grid Reference:: ST 44251 09860

Details

CREWKERNE

ST4409 EAST STREET 876-1/7/73 (North side) 12/06/50 Gazebo, steps, terraces and walls to north-west of Merefield House (Formerly Listed as: EAST STREET (North side) Gates, railings & walls to grounds & summerhouse to grounds of Merefield House)

GV II*

Gazebo. Early C18. MATERIALS: stucco forward-facing gable, Flemish-bond brick to the rest, with slate roof and brick stack to rear gable end. PLAN: square plan. EXTERIOR: single-storey; 2-window range. A steep Dutch gable with moulded coping, supports a formerly gilded eagle at the apex, and a sun dial to the front. 4 pilasters below a moulded cornice articulate 3 narrow bays; the outer ones have tall windows of 6 rows of 3 panes, in moulded architraves with segmental arches and keystones. To the centre is a lower, flat, moulded hood with a concave front, over a C20 door. INTERIOR: virtually complete early C18. The square coved ceiling has a hemi-spherical dome to the centre with pendant vine leaves and grapes, set in a square moulded frame with oramented spandrels. There is a fine box-cornice over full-height panelling above the dado, plain below, and some original skirting boards. The limestone fireplace has an eared architrave with stone hobs and a C20 free-standing stove in front; above it is one large panel to the top, a narrow horizontal one to the centre, and paired raised panels above the fireplace. This is flanked by shell alcoves with fretted shelves and raised-and-fielded panels to cupboards below. The floor is of limestone squares with small slate squares inset at the corners. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a long flight of stone steps and terraces lead up to the door; high brick walls with Ham Hill stone coping moulded to the edges, enclose the garden to the south and meet the late C19 wing of Merefield House (qv); these sweep up to join the facade of the gazebo just below the cornice. Fine lead urns stand on each corner to the north, and the lower flights of steps are flanked by 2 pairs of piers with raised and field panels. This is a fine example of a town house gazebo with its associated terraced garden.

Listing NGR: ST4425109860

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Legacy System number:: 390351
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.