HADSPEN HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1251809
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: HADSPEN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HADSPEN HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1251809
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: HADSPEN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HADSPEN 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:: HADSPEN HOUSE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pitcombe
National Grid Reference:: ST6602331037

Details

ST63SE 5/244

PITCOMBE CP HADSPEN Hadspen House

24.3.61

GV II*

Country House. Mostly C18. Cary stone ashlar; hipped Welsh slate roof behind parapets; stone chimney stacks. Originally solid "U"-plan with C19 and C20 extensions; 2 storeys with attics; 5 bay South front, the centre 3 bays slightly projecting. Plinth, rustic quoins to centre bays, cornice, low parapet with coping, with pediment over centre bays: 12-pane sash windows to ground floor, set in architraved surrounds with pedimented heads, triangular to bays 1 and 5, segmental bays 2 and 4; central part-glazed doors set in porch with Doric columns and pilasters, full entablature with metopes and pediment hood: first floor has 9-pane sashes in architraved surrounds; behind parapets 4 hipped roof dormers with 2-light casement windows. West elevation of matching 4 bays, with projecting single storey porch having rusticated ashlar, plinth, cornice, coped parapet and Doric columns supporting full entablature and pedimented hood protecting 6-panel door: Westwards extension from North West corner in plainer style, dated 1886. East elevation of 5 bays; bay 1 matches, then 4 plain bays leading to plainer Eastwards extension with segmental curved end, date on weathervane 1909. Rear extension Northwards of 1828. Inside, rooms of several periods: South West room, the library, has good cornice, fireplace surround and Chippendale style built-in bookcases; South East sitting room has cornice, fireplace, dado and plaster panelled walls; East dining room has cornice, marble fireplace flanked by statue niches, plain dado and Adamesque plasterwork decoration to walls; North West room has early C18 dado panelling, possibly adapted; main stair at rear early C19, but stairs from first floor to attic of C18 - at foot a 2-panel door with detached pediment doorcase. Original farmhouse built by William Player, 1687 to 1699; sold to Vickris Dickinson in 1747, again in 1767 and finally to Hobhouse family, present owners, in 1785. House improved between 1767 and 1791, when Collinson was able to describe it as "recently much improved" - ceilings of front rooms raised 1786-87, wth some other works; major alterations and additons to rear in 1828, 1886 and 1909 - good quality work of each period. (Andrew Raven, Hadspen House, Unpublished architectural thesis for RWA Bristol, undated).

Listing NGR: ST6602331037

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 434632
Legacy System:: LBS

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