ABBEY HOUSE

ABBEY HOUSE, CHURCH HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1258892
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: ABBEY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ABBEY HOUSE, CHURCH HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1258892
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: ABBEY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ABBEY HOUSE, CHURCH HILL

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:: ABBEY HOUSE, CHURCH HILL

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: South Cadbury and Sutton Montis
National Grid Reference:: ST6238024871

Details

ST625W 7/144

SOUTH CADBURY CP SUTTON MONTIS CHURCH HILL (West side)

Abbey House

24.3.61

GV II*

Former priest's house. C15 and later. Local lias stone rubble, part rendered, Doulting stone dressings; double Roman clay tile roof with plain gables; brick chimney stacks. Entrance on south side, which is 2-storey; 5 bays, of which bay 3 has a projecting 2-storey porch: bays 1 and 2, the west end, the oldest portion. Hollow-chamfer mullioned windows of 2 types: bays 1, 2 lower and 5 lower have 4-centre, almost triangular, arched lights, the lower with labels; bays 2, 3 and 5 upper and 4 lower have flat-headed lights; all windows 2-light except those to bay 5, which are 3-light; the window to upper bay 4 is a horizontal bar casement: porch to bay 3 has plain doorway with part-glazed inner door on heavy frame. West gable has, below, 4-light hollow-chamfer mullioned window, flat headed lights with some early external ironwork, set in plain recess, no label; above, centred on gable a 2-light C15 traceried pointed arched window without label: boarding to crown of gable. North elevation (roadside) of 7 bays: all windows of 2 lights; bay 1 has hollow-chamfer mullioned window with flat head to lights below, no label, and above an ovolo-mould mullioned window with label; bay 2 has a 4-centre arched window below, under square label, and above blank; bay 3 a flat-headed window with inserted timber lintol below, and an early casement window above, half rectangular-leaded and half diamond- leaded; bays 4 and 6 have near-triangular arched light windows at upper level, and between then a 3-centre arched window, all three without labels; below a 3-light casement under timber lintol bay 5: lean-to porches bays 4 and 6: bay 7 has a projecting chimney stack of considerable size, and there is an angled corner buttress with offsets to the north-west. The east gable has an oven projection, a leaded casement window and a C20 window, and some unexplained corbel brackets. Inside, the east gable has a wide, open fireplace with elm beam, side oven and possibly a curing chamber above; roughly chamfered cross beam to east room; west room has fine moulded fireplace with nearly triangular arch, probably early C15: stair case of c1800: north-west corner bedroom has chamfer mould fireplace with triangular arched lintol over: several 2-panel doors on first floor; roof frame of A-frame collar trusses at east end, and then 4 arch-braced curved collar-trusses, with two purlins to each slope,, the lower and middle sections arch-windbraced. The building probably erected by the Mont-Acute (Montacute) family who held lands here from the Conquest until the end of the C15.

Listing NGR: ST6238024871

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 445808
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.