SAND HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262099
Date first listed:: 31-May-1985
List Entry Name:: SAND HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SAND HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262099
Date first listed:: 31-May-1985
List Entry Name:: SAND HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SAND 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SAND HOUSE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wedmore
National Grid Reference:: ST 43351 46450

Details

ST44NW WEDMORE CP SAND

10/229 Sand House

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- II

Country house. Circa 1750 for William White, C19 alterations and additions. Roughcast, freestone dressings, some rusticated ashlar quoins, moulded cornice, tall parapet forming a blank third storey, plain coping, 3 pineapple finials. Symmetrical garden frontage of two storeys, 3 bays, sash windows with marginal glazing barsi rusticated surrounds, stepped voussoirs, parapet with 3 blank windows in a similar style. Central door opening, half glazed door, doorcase with rusticated pilasters, triangular pediment. Right return of 2 storeys, moulded cornice, ashlar parapet ramped up to each side, further pineapple finial to right of this return; 2:2:2 bays, a pilaster between each; sash windows, those to first floor of 12-lights, those to ground floor with glazing bars removed, each window with paired horizontally sliding shutters; angular bay window with a transom to right of ground floor, hipped tile roof. Interior with some C18 and C19 features, particularly ornamental plasterwork to principal ground floor rooms; late C18 staircase, twisted and turned balusters, ramped handrail, mid C19 dado-panelling to dining room with grained decoration. Much important Oriental and Indian work of the C19 and earlier incorporated into the interior of the house; particularly an overmantle and panelling to right ground floor room; overmantle, panelling and carvings to large hall to rear.

Listing NGR: ST4335146450

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 435903
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.