Ashfield House
ASHFIELD HOUSE, ASHFIELD PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224127
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ashfield House
- Statutory Address:
- ASHFIELD HOUSE, ASHFIELD PARK
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224127
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ashfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHFIELD HOUSE, ASHFIELD PARK
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:
- ASHFIELD HOUSE, ASHFIELD PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Martock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 46149 19378
Details
Ashfield House, Ashfield Park 12/165 9/165
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Ashfield House, Ashfield Park 12/165 9/165
------------------------------------ ST4619 MARTOCK CP ASHFIELD PARK (North side)
12/165 Ashfield House
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- II
Large detached house, now in multiple occupancy. Before 1849. Built by William Cole Wood, then principal tradesman and landowner in town. Ham stone ashlar; hipped Welsh slate roofs; stone chimney stacks. Two storeys with basement, 4 bays. Plinth, string courses, eaves cornice and plain low parapet, end pilasters: casement windows of 6 panes above and 8 panes below, in architraves, the upper windows having bracketted cills on console brackets to hoods, the lower hoods only and aprons; the basement windows have segmental arches: bay 3 is expressed as a short tower, with flanking panelled pilasters, Doric porch with fluted columns in antis carrying an entablature set in segmental arch, framing a pair of studded 4-panel doors with fanlight and sidelight; pediment at eaves level and open balustrade: to lower bay 4 a single-storey lean-to, in similar style but possibly later, with 3 bays each having plain sash windows: north-east corner chamfered. Matching elevation to south side of 3 wide bays, of which the outer bays project slightly, and the centre bay has a segmental bow, with the remnants of a verandah at lower level. Interior not seen. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4614919378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420104
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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