PIXTON PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1247974
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: PIXTON PARK
Statutory Address:: PIXTON PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1247974
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: PIXTON PARK
Statutory Address 1:: PIXTON PARK

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:: PIXTON PARK

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dulverton
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS 92486 27176

Details

SS92NW DULVERTON CP

PIXTON PARK

9/86 Pixton Park

6.4.59

- II*

Country house. Circa 1760, altered internally cl820, 1870 again altered internally, west wing with billiard room added, entrance resited on north front, entrance hall with service wing added on east side. Built for the Acland family, altered by the Earl of Carnarvon. Roughcast over rubble, Ham stone dressings, hipped slate roofs, mansard to billiard wing, tall stacks rising on returns, modillion cornice on south front. Plan: original block double pile. Billiard room added south-west corner, entrance porch added north-east corner opening into through corridor with service wing adjoining an east front. South front: original block 3-storey, billiard wing 2-storey plus attic, 2:1:3:1 bays, pediment to central 3 bays, giant Ionic pilasters divided by flat string course set over basement, second floor 9-pane sash windows, 12-pane first floor, ground floor 18-pane in billiard wing, 12-pane right, arch head niches with aprons above in centre pedimented doorcase right in single storey entrance wing, service wing beyond to right. Interior: hall altered in 1870, divided by 3-bay arcade, staircase rising on north front, to south top lit gallery continued around 2 storeys supported by large modillion brackets. Some early C19 plaster cornices in south front rooms and white marble chimney piece, (the dining room chimney piece removed after former listing), panelled shutters, pedimented doorcases and original doors. It is believed that the house was originally entered on the east front via a courtyard formed from 2 flanking service wings demolished in 1870. This was the home of Col Molyneux Herbert who lies in the memorial chapel in Brushford Church (qv). Photographs in NMR; Press, Somersetshire County Houses and Villages, 1931).

Listing NGR: SS9248627176

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Legacy System number:: 429463
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Somersetshire Country Houses and Villages 1931-32, (1931)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.