Tolbury House and Attached Walls, Gatepiers and Gate
TOLBURY HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATE, HIGHER BACKWAY
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252230
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Tolbury House and Attached Walls, Gatepiers and Gate
- Statutory Address:
- TOLBURY HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATE, HIGHER BACKWAY
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2007-04-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/15620/08
- Rights:
- © Mr Michael Green. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252230
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Tolbury House and Attached Walls, Gatepiers and Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOLBURY HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATE, HIGHER BACKWAY
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:
- TOLBURY HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATE, HIGHER BACKWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bruton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6808634854
Details
The following building shall be added to the list :-
ST 6834 NW
8/190
BRUTON
HIGHER BACKWAY (south side)
Tolbury House and attached walls, gatepiers and gates
GV II
House. C17/18, rebuilt and remodelled c.1835. Coursed limestone rubble, rendered
to garden front; Welsh slate roof, hipped to projecting wings facing garden front;
brick stacks. F-plan, with projecting wings. 2 storeys. Garden front of 6 bays
has projecting wing to left; then 3-window range with early C19 twelve and 16-pane
sashes and French windows with glazing bars; projecting wing to right with sashes
flanking casement to early C19 first-floor tripartite window above early C19 tripartite
window with fixed outer lights with glazing bars flanking French window with margin-
light glazing bars; bay to extreme right has early C19 twelve-pane sash above half-
glazed double doors with margin-light glazing bars. Rear wall has ostler's ring,
fire-insurance plaque and 2 tall semi-circular arched windows including fine stair-light
with radiating glazing bars to head and sexfoils set in diamond-paned leaded lights.
Small service court to left has early C19 plank door to rear, adjoining laundry
and pantry building with lean-to roof and C19 two-light windows one with original
louvred shutters; lean-to lavatory to front. Interior: an exceptionally well-preserved
interior, with panelled shutters and doors with original fittings including curtain
rods to some doors; moulded skirtings and dado rails and plank dados to most rooms;
cast-iron grates and fire surrounds in various styles; front room to right, former
dining room, has neo-classical fireplace, foliate cornice and picture rails. To
centre is hall with decorative tile floor and stairhall with fine open-well staircase
having stick balusters, fret-cut brackets to open string and ramped and wreathed
mahogany handrail; moulded and ramped dado rail and moulded cornice. Kitchen to
left has C19 plank screens, fitted cupboards, arch ed open fireplace bread oven
set in ashlar surround and service stair; C19 plank screens to former servants'
rooms in attic. Ground-floor room to right of kitchen has C18 keyed stone fireplace
with brass bracket. Laundry has C19 copper. Subsidiary features: tall limestone
rubble wall, with 1835 date plaques, extends approx. 35 m to SE with curve to NE
return of approx 29 m; tall limestone rubble wall with ashlar coping extends approx. 1
to NNW, returning for approx. 95 m E along Higher Backway with return of approx. 25 m
to S and 18 m to W at E end; ramped north-facing section along Higher Backway has
early C19 studded door with decorative cross-bracing and rosettes set in reset early
C17 architrave adjoining rusticated gatepiers flanking similar decorative gates
with rosettes and quatrefoils to upper panels above cross-braced lower panels.
Listing NGR: ST6808634854
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435191
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 18-Jun-2026 at 01:00:38.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.