PEPPERPOT CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248097
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: PEPPERPOT CASTLE
Statutory Address:: PEPPERPOT CASTLE

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Date:: 2001-09-25
Reference:: IOE01/03507/17
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248097
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: PEPPERPOT CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: PEPPERPOT CASTLE

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:: PEPPERPOT CASTLE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Upton
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS 98831 28753

Details

SS 92 NE UPTON CP UPTON VILLAGE

Pepperpot Castle 10/114

- II

Shown on OS map as Haddon Lodge, Lodge to Lady Acland's drive now private dwellings. Early C19, enlarged late C20 Rendered, probably over rubble, plinth, crenellated parapet concealing probable flat roof, slate roofs to C20 additions, rendered stack as extended merlon in southern corner. Triangular in plan, hexagonal towers in corners, single storey porch on north front, stair in south turret, colonettes to all arrises on original structure, C20 additions east and west fronts. Castellated style. North front: 2 storeys, towers with attics indicated by moulded string courses,blind lancets in towers, blind quatrefoil first floor between towers, gabled single storey porch below, pointed arch window with divided tracery entred on left return, plank door, pointed arch, half-glazed inner door; lit first floor on east and west fronts with similar pointed arch windows with divided tracery, C20 additions below; glazed lancet to stair in south turret. An entertaining little building with sympathetic C20 additions. This drive was built By Lady Harriet Acland during the long period of her widowhood, 1778-1815, to connect Pixton Park (qv) Dulverton CP, where her daughter the Countess of Carnarvon lived, with her own estates near Wiveliscombe. (Rushbridge, Exmoor Review, 1974).

Listing NGR: SS9883128753

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Legacy System number:: 429598
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Rushbridge, , 'Exmoor Review' in Exmoor Review, (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.