THE LODGE AND THE HERMITAGE AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE LEFT

THE LODGE AND THE HERMITAGE AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE LEFT, COMBELAND ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279719
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1952
List Entry Name:: THE LODGE AND THE HERMITAGE AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE LEFT
Statutory Address:: THE LODGE AND THE HERMITAGE AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE LEFT, COMBELAND ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279719
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: THE LODGE AND THE HERMITAGE AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE LEFT
Statutory Address 1:: THE LODGE AND THE HERMITAGE AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE LEFT, COMBELAND 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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Statutory Address:: THE LODGE AND THE HERMITAGE AND ATTACHED WALL TO THE LEFT, COMBELAND ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Minehead
National Grid Reference:: SS 97748 44996

Details

MINEHEAD

SS9744 COMBELAND ROAD, Alcombe 900-1/5/136 (North side) 04/07/52 The Lodge and The Hermitage and attached wall to the left (Formerly Listed as: COMBELAND ROAD, Alcombe (North side) The Lodge and The Hermitage)

GV II

2 houses. The Lodge. C17. Painted roughcast over cob and rubblestone, thatched roof, half-hipped to the right with a lateral stack to rear right and a brick stack to left gable end. 2-unit through-passage plan with small mid C18 rear right wing. 2 storeys; 2-window range. C18 leaded casement windows with C19 glazing. The left range steps forward with a 3-light window to the eaves and 4-light below; to right of centre, in the angle of the set-back range to the right, is a C19 six-panel door, glazed to the top, under a slate lean-to porch; one 3-light window to both floors to the right. The Hermitage is attached to the rear right. Early C18. Render over cob and rubblestone, thatched roof, hipped to the right, with a brick ridge stack to the right. Originally approx 4-unit plan, now remodelled. 2 storeys; 5-window range; 3- and 4-light casement windows with leaded lights at eaves level, those to the left in half-dormers. The ground floor has C19 two-light casement windows with small panes and some C20 windows to the left. To the right of centre a C18 six-panel door is under a hipped thatched porch. INTERIORS: The Lodge has chamfered cross beams to both ground-floor rooms, an open fire to the left gable end has a double lintel chamfered to the front and ovens to the sides. The room to the right has a former open fire to the rear. Flagstone and brick floors to the ground floor, some elm boards to the first floor. The virtually central staircase, probably repositioned, is approached from the C18 rear wing and runs from back to front. Some early C18 two-panel doors and some C19 planked doors. The first floor has exposed main rafters with trenched purlins to a 3-bay roof. The roofspace to the right, C18 or early C19, has a diagonally-set ridge with purlins resting on the main rafters and random vertical supports to rafters at the corner. The Hermitage not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached to the left of The Lodge is a rubblestone wall approx 3m high and 30m long. HISTORY: The Lodge is reputed to have been 2 cottages and an old photograph shows the range to the right as having a central door flanked by leaded casement windows.

Listing NGR: SS9774844996

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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.