Decombe House
DECOMBE HOUSE, MOUNT PLEASANT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208506
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Decombe House
- Statutory Address:
- DECOMBE HOUSE, MOUNT PLEASANT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208506
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Decombe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DECOMBE HOUSE, MOUNT PLEASANT
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:
- DECOMBE HOUSE, MOUNT PLEASANT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crewkerne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4470709946
Details
CREWKERNE
ST4409 MOUNT PLEASANT
876-1/7/132 (North side)
06/09/74 DeCombe House
(Formerly Listed as:
MOUNT PLEASANT
Grammar School)
II
Former grammar school, now apartments. 1876-82, by Giles and
Gough. MATERIALS: coursed limestone rubble, Ham Hill stone
quoins and dressings, slate roof.
EXTERIOR: mostly 3 storeys; 8-window range. To the far right
is a projecting 2-storeyed forward-facing gable with a
crenellated finial to the moulded coping and set-back, offset
buttresses. It has Perpendicular-style tracery to a
pointed-arched, 5-light, stone mullioned window with
cinquefoil heads to each 4-paned light; a panelled band
between floors, and pointed-arched 5-light stone-mullioned
windows with sunk spandrels to the ground floor.
The main facade has mostly 3-light, chamfered stone-mullioned
and transomed windows to first and second floors, gabled
half-dormers to the second floor and 4-light stone mullioned
windows to the ground floor, some with pointed arches and sunk
spandrels. To the right-of centre buttresses flank steps up to
double doors, each 6 panels, set in a high Tudor arch with
glazed overlight; a hoodmould with foliate stops includes a
panel with a shield and inscription above the arch, and
shields in the spandrels. A canted bay with a hipped slate
roof to the far left where the ground slopes down is 3
storeys; a castellated canted bay to left-of-centre is 2
storeys.
INTERIOR: glazed inner doors have chamfered frames, the floor
to the large hall is polychromatic, the wide open-well
staircase extending through 3 floors has stone treads, scroll
balusters and cast-iron newel; the skirting is also stone.
HISTORY: named The Mount Pleasant School in 1880, it acquired
a gymnasium in 1884 and a swimming bath in 1888.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South and West Somerset:
London: 1958-: P.137-9; Kelly's Directory: 1902-).
Listing NGR: ST4470709946
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390409
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958), 137-139
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1902)
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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