CHILWORTHY HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248389
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: CHILWORTHY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CHILWORTHY HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248389
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: CHILWORTHY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CHILWORTHY HOUSE

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:: CHILWORTHY HOUSE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Combe St. Nicholas
National Grid Reference:: ST 31773 12298

Details

ST31SW COMBE ST NICHOLAS CP -

6/45 Chilworthy House (formerly listed in Ilminster without CP) 4.2.58 GV II

Country house. Late C19, Random rubble local stone, quoins, Ham stone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges, buff brick stacks in groups of 2 and 3 set diagonally on base, moulded caps. Plan: on sloping site, land rises to the south with loggia and billiard root on pardon front, principal roods on east front (entrance) and north. Tudor manorial style. East front; 2 and a half storey gable ends flanking 2 storey centre, one and half storey billiard wing lit on return, 1:l:2:1 bays, 3-,4- and 5-light stone ovolo- moulded mullion windows, end bay left 4-light canted bay with hipped stone slate roof: single storey porch centre of main block with gabled centre to parapet with unidentified coat of arms, cornice, depressed Tudor arch head opening with hoodmould, ribbed and studded door, 15-panel inner door, roughcast returns, circular lights with pedimented lintels, Interior: entrance hall with 16-panel moulded compartment ceiling, chimneypiece in late C15 style, cup and cover capitals supporting mantelpiece, panelled stair-well against rear wall otherwise little interior decoration of note; chamfered beam with step and runout stops in kitchen, probably reused. Externally a very successful pastiche of a Tudor manor house. The house was purchased by Sir Herman Runge c1900 and his jranddauqhter, the novelist Monica Dickens, set her first two novels around the house (The Times, 25 March l985).

Listing NGR: ST3177312298

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Legacy System number:: 429986
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'The Times' in 25 March, (1985)

Legal

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