SHEPTON HOUSE WITH SERVICE RANGE ATTACHED

SHEPTON HOUSE WITH SERVICE RANGE ATTACHED, HIGHER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264164
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: SHEPTON HOUSE WITH SERVICE RANGE ATTACHED
Statutory Address:: SHEPTON HOUSE WITH SERVICE RANGE ATTACHED, HIGHER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264164
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: SHEPTON HOUSE WITH SERVICE RANGE ATTACHED
Statutory Address 1:: SHEPTON HOUSE WITH SERVICE RANGE ATTACHED, HIGHER ROAD

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:: SHEPTON HOUSE WITH SERVICE RANGE ATTACHED, HIGHER ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shepton Beauchamp
National Grid Reference:: ST 40059 16914

Details

ST41NW SHEPTON BEAUCHAMP CP HIGHER ROAD (East side)

6/56 Shepton House with service range attached

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- II

House. 1850, for John Stratton Coles. Coursed and squared rubble, coped verges with kneelers, tile roofs, finials, tall ashlar stacks with moulded caps. High Victorian Tudor-Gothic, L-plan with service range at right-angles to rear also including a stable-yard. Two storeys and attic and 2 storeys; garden front of 1:1:1 bays, outer pair project slightly under front-facing gables, centre bay with a gablet with a quatrefoil. Attic windows of 2 lights, each light with a 4-centred arch head, labels. First floor with 2 and 4-light windows in similar style, first floor band. Ground floor with 2 shallow projecting bays, hipped stone roofs, 4-light transomed stone-mullioned windows, centre lights forming a pair of French windows with a 4-centred arch head; 3-light window to centre. Entrance frontage with a single bay projecting porch with a 4-centred arch outer door opening, oriel set over on first floor; inner door opening with paired half-glazed doors. To left of porch a canted 6-light bay window, transomed, segmental stone roof; above a lancet window. Service range of a single storey and attic; at the rear of this a stable-yard in a conforming Tudor-Gothic style, entered through a 4-centred arch carriage opening. Interior with High Gothic features including staircase, fireplaces, tile floors, and 2 coffered ceiling in the style of Pugin. Rear elevation with a reused C17 mullioned and transomed window, inside a reused moulded stone C17 chimney-piece. (VCH, vol IV, 1978).

Listing NGR: ST4005916914

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Legacy System number:: 428534
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.