DOVERHAY READING ROOM AND COTTAGE ABUTTING NORTH END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1296210
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: DOVERHAY READING ROOM AND COTTAGE ABUTTING NORTH END
Statutory Address:: DOVERHAY READING ROOM AND COTTAGE ABUTTING NORTH END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1296210
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: DOVERHAY READING ROOM AND COTTAGE ABUTTING NORTH END
Statutory Address 1:: DOVERHAY READING ROOM AND COTTAGE ABUTTING NORTH END

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:: DOVERHAY READING ROOM AND COTTAGE ABUTTING NORTH END

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Porlock
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS8880946755

Details

SS8846 PORLOCK CP DOVERHAY 24/48 Doverhay Reading Rooa and cottage abutting north end 22.5.69 - II*

Manor house, now dwelling, museum and information centre. Late C15, extended possibly C17, extensively restored c1895 by Edmund Buckle. Roughcast over rubble, exposed (right) gable end, quoins, slate roofs, coped verges to rain block, external stone stack right in gable end and rising at rear of main block. L-plan: central hall with addition left, cross wing projecting right. One and a half and two storeys, lower independently roofed addition left with C19 casement rising through eaves, pentice hood to 3-light bay window, door to right with pentice porch; main block, first floor 2-light ovolo moulded mullion window, ground floor good 8-light mullioned and transomed Perpendicular window under hood mould with C19 ferramentae, depressed 4-centred arch moulded doorframe right, independently roofed wing right, stair light gable end, leaded casements with carved oak frames and Perpendicular tracery, extensively renewed late C19. Interior: partially sighted, hall fine ogee-headed lintel to fireplace carried on shaped corbels, renewed 6-panel compartment ceiling, stone newel stair, ogee headed doorframe, arched wooden door frame in upper storey with exposed 3-bay arch braced roof, moulded wall plate; wing not seen. Restored at the expense of Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey. (Photograph in NMR; Chadwyck-Healey, The History of the Part of West Somerset, 1901).

Listing NGR: SS8880946755

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Legacy System number:: 265461
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Healey, C, The History of the Part of West Somerset, (1901)

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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.