EAST STOKE HOUSE, WITH COACHHOUSE LINKED TO NORTH EAST CORNER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241609
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: EAST STOKE HOUSE, WITH COACHHOUSE LINKED TO NORTH EAST CORNER
Statutory Address:: EAST STOKE HOUSE, WITH COACHHOUSE LINKED TO NORTH EAST CORNER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241609
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: EAST STOKE HOUSE, WITH COACHHOUSE LINKED TO NORTH EAST CORNER
Statutory Address 1:: EAST STOKE HOUSE, WITH COACHHOUSE LINKED TO NORTH EAST CORNER

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: EAST STOKE HOUSE, WITH COACHHOUSE LINKED TO NORTH EAST CORNER

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stoke sub Hamdon
National Grid Reference:: ST 48630 17525

Details

ST4817 STOKE SUB HAMDON CP EAST STOKE (North side, off) 7/279 East Stoke House, with coachhouse linked to north-east corner 19.4.61 GV II Detached house. Late C18 and early C19. Ham stone ashlar facade, elsewhere cut and squared; hipped Welsh slate roofs with parapet to front; ashlar chimney stacks. Double roof plan, with later additions; 2 storeys, 5 bays. Plinth, rusticated quoins, cornice, solid parapet; above, margined sash windows in architraves, with pairs of windows to outer bays; below, angled bay windows with larger matching sash windows to outer bays, with flat roofs behind low parapet; to bays 2 and 4 semi-circular arched niches for statuary; to bay 3 an open stone with fluted Doric columns, paired, carrying plain entablature. Later C19 extension on east side, 2 storeys, 3 bays, hipped at west end but coped to east, with small-pane and horizontal-bar casement windows. To rear, north-east corner, a wing wall with ogee curved openings, square gatepiers with gabletted caps linking the house to the coach house, which is single-storey, with slate roof between stepped coped gables, with elaborate cross finial to south gable. The house begun in late C18 by the Chaffey family, who assembled an estate piecemeal from portions of the then defunct East Stoke Manor. (VCH vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4863017525

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Legacy System number:: 440774
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.