Walls, turrets and gateway to east forecourt of Montacute House
Montacute House, The Borough, TA15 6XP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1252025
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Walls, turrets and gateway to east forecourt of Montacute House
- Statutory Address:
- Montacute House, The Borough, TA15 6XP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1252025
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Walls, turrets and gateway to east forecourt of Montacute House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Montacute House, The Borough, TA15 6XP
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Montacute House, The Borough, TA15 6XP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Montacute
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5000017143
Details
ST4917
7/129
MONTACUTE CP
THE BOROUGH (North side, off)
Walls, turrets and gateway to east forecourt of Montacute House
(formerly listed as Pair of Garden Houses and walls of east forecourt at Montacute House)
19.4.61
GV
I
Enclosing elements of forecourt. C16. By William Arnold for Sir Edward Phelips. Ham stone ashlar, cast iron gates. The walling about 3.5 metres high, with about 2m solid ashlar, then open balustrading with copings north and south walls twenty bays, with piers capped with obelisk finials marking each bay, in the fifth bay from the house on each side small gateway with pair C19 cast iron gates, and to the eleventh bay from the house an open circular turret, with moulded flat roof carried on six Doric columns, with groups of flying buttresses over reflecting the ogee roofs of the corner pavilions (q.v), which these walls link to the house. The east wall of the forecourt links these two pavilions, and is of fifteen bays, the centre bay being a wide gateway having tall square piers with frieze band, cornice caps, steps and open globe and point finials, again echoing the pavilions, and with pair C19 cast iron gates: this last gateway replaces the former gate-house, which seems to have been demolished by the late C17.
One of the most impressive features of the original house, the entrance was superseded by the 1785 west front: the forecourt became a garden, later laid out to design of Victoria Sackville-West.
(Girouard M and others, Montacute House, National Trust 1985).
Listing NGR: ST5000017143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434951
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Girouard, M et al, Montacute House, (1985)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 Somerset,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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