Rock House
ROCK HOUSE, WOODLANDS END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268424
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Rock House
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK HOUSE, WOODLANDS END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268424
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Rock House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCK HOUSE, WOODLANDS END
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:
- ROCK HOUSE, WOODLANDS END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mells
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 73018 49053
Details
ST74NW MELLS WOODLANDS END
294-0/3/10006 Rock House
GV II
House. C18 or possibly earlier in origin, remodelled and extended in about the 1830s or 1840s. Rough rendered stone. Slate and clay plain tile roofs with stone coping to the gable ends. Gable-end and axial stacks with brick and stone shafts. PLAN : 3-room and cross-passage main range with an axial passage behind the centre room which projects at the front, the former kitchen on the right and parlour on the left and with a large outshut behind the right-hand end containing the stair hall, kitchen, scullery and pantry .The C18 house occupies the two left rooms; the cross-passage and right-hand room remodelled or added when the outshut behind was built. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:1:2 bay south front. The left bay has C18 3-light stone mullion windows with bowel mouldings; the projecting centre bay has a hipped roof and a rebuilt 3-storey canted bay window; the right:-hand 2-window range has deeply chamfered C19 stone window frames with hoodmoulds and 2-light casements with glazing bars, ground floor right similar 3-light window and doorway on right with panelled and glazed door and C 19 stone porch with hoodmould and moulded parapet coping. At rear, the roof of the C 19 east range is carried down as a catslide over a large outshut on the left with a 3-light ovolo-moulded stone I1:lullion window and a plank door on right. INTERIOR: Some C18 2-panel doors on first floor, but the remainder of the interior joinery is early-mid C19, including panelled doors, chimneypieces, a china cupboard, niche in the parlour and two staircases, the main staircase with stick balusters and a moulded handrail wreathed over a thin column newel at the curtail, the attic staircase with stick balusters and a column newel.
Listing NGR: ST7301849053
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461853
- 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.
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