Tower in Combe Wood at ST1402 3171 (known as Winter's Tower)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262332
Date first listed:: 23-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: Tower in Combe Wood at ST1402 3171 (known as Winter's Tower)
Statutory Address:: Tower in Combe Wood at ST1402 3171 (known as Winter's Tower)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262332
Date first listed:: 23-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: Tower in Combe Wood at ST1402 3171 (known as Winter's Tower)
Statutory Address 1:: Tower in Combe Wood at ST1402 3171 (known as Winter's Tower)

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:: Tower in Combe Wood at ST1402 3171 (known as Winter's Tower)

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Combe Florey
National Grid Reference:: ST 14021 31722

Details

ST 13 SW 2/191

COMBE FLOREY Tower in Combe Wood at ST1402 3171 (known as Winter's Tower)

II Tower. Early-mid C18. Red sandstone random rubble rendered on upper three storeys. Five storeys, single cell. Pilaster buttresses to north east and north west corners; projecting stone platt bands to second and third floors; cyma-moulded eaves string; parapet with angle merlons; angle gutter spouts (renewed).

South (roadside) elevation: central entrance with remains of timber arch in doorhead; central pointed-arched window opening to each upper floor, that on first floor with remains of cusped timber window head; flanking narrow windows on each floor, timber-lintelled on ground and first floors, triangular-headed above, those on upper floors with remnants of traceried heads.

Rear (north) elevation: central external chimney stack with a blind, triangular-headed narrow opening on each floor and flanking three-light, wooden, mullioned windows with wooden stanchions, those to ground floor right and first floor left moulded and probably late C16, reused.

Side elevations: central pointed-arched window openings to three upper floors; central ground floor door opening to east side.

Interior: smoke-blackened fireplace recess with side fireplace recess; sockets for joists (removed); lower three floors plastered from later use as habitation. Derelict at time of inspection.

Built by the Winter family as a keeper's cottage and eyecatcher.

Listing NGR: ST1402131722

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Legacy System number:: 270503
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.