ALCOMBE HOUSE HOTEL, INCLUDING MULBERRY COTTAGE, AND ATTACHED WALL TO LEFT

ALCOMBE HOUSE HOTEL, INCLUDING MULBERRY COTTAGE, AND ATTACHED WALL TO LEFT, BIRCHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279753
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1952
List Entry Name:: ALCOMBE HOUSE HOTEL, INCLUDING MULBERRY COTTAGE, AND ATTACHED WALL TO LEFT
Statutory Address:: ALCOMBE HOUSE HOTEL, INCLUDING MULBERRY COTTAGE, AND ATTACHED WALL TO LEFT, BIRCHAM ROAD

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Date:: 1999-10-26
Reference:: IOE01/00044/29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279753
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: ALCOMBE HOUSE HOTEL, INCLUDING MULBERRY COTTAGE, AND ATTACHED WALL TO LEFT
Statutory Address 1:: ALCOMBE HOUSE HOTEL, INCLUDING MULBERRY COTTAGE, AND ATTACHED WALL TO LEFT, BIRCHAM 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:: ALCOMBE HOUSE HOTEL, INCLUDING MULBERRY COTTAGE, AND ATTACHED WALL TO LEFT, BIRCHAM 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 97778 45103

Details

MINEHEAD

SS9745 BIRCHAM ROAD, Alcombe 900-1/4/121 (South side) 04/07/52 Alcombe House Hotel, including Mulberry Cottage, and attached wall to left (Formerly Listed as: BIRCHAM ROAD, Alcombe (South side) Nos.1-5 (Consecutive) The Terrace and Alcombe House)

GV II

House to left end of, and at a right-angle to, The Terrace (qv). Late C18. Render over rubblestone, hipped slate roof with 2 brick stacks to rear. 2-unit plan with central stairhall and C19 wing to the left. 3 storeys with attic and basement; symmetrical 3-window range. Forward frames to 3/6-pane sash windows to the second floor and 6/6 panes to the rest. Large late C19 canted bays flank a classical-style doorcase with broken pediment and ornamented fanlight to a 6-panel door with raised and fielded panels. Parapet to facade and bays. Alcombe House terminates the left end of The Terrace (qv); Alcombe Hall (qv) terminates it to the right. The mid C19 two-storey wing to the rear left, now Mulberry Cottage, has a variety of windows including four tripartite sashes. INTERIOR: The ground floor retains 6-panel doors and architraves. An open well, open-string staircase extends to the attic, it has stick balusters, fretted ends, a swept mahogany rail and turned newels. The upper floors have late C19 four-panel doors and some late C19 fireplaces. The basement is stone-flagged with steps and a door to the C19 service wing. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a rubblestone wall approx 4m high and 40m long is attached to the rear left of the left wing.

Listing NGR: SS9777845103

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Legacy System number:: 391141
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.