King's Gatchell and Walls Enclosing Forecourt Continued As North Retaining Wall to Garden
KING'S GATCHELL AND WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT CONTINUED AS NORTH RETAINING WALL TO GARDEN, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307609
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- King's Gatchell and Walls Enclosing Forecourt Continued As North Retaining Wall to Garden
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S GATCHELL AND WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT CONTINUED AS NORTH RETAINING WALL TO GARDEN, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307609
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- King's Gatchell and Walls Enclosing Forecourt Continued As North Retaining Wall to Garden
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING'S GATCHELL AND WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT CONTINUED AS NORTH RETAINING WALL TO GARDEN, CHURCH ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- KING'S GATCHELL AND WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT CONTINUED AS NORTH RETAINING WALL TO GARDEN, HONITON ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- KING'S GATCHELL AND WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT CONTINUED AS NORTH RETAINING WALL TO GARDEN, CHURCH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S GATCHELL AND WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT CONTINUED AS NORTH RETAINING WALL TO GARDEN, HONITON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Trull
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 21376 22241
Details
ST22SW TRULL CP HONITON ROAD (East side)
9/181 King's Gatchell and walls enclosing forecourt continued as North retaining wall to garden
II
House. Late C16-early C17, enlarged C18, East front refenestrated, turret and porch added on West front circa 1870. Rendered over random rubble on main elevations, Bath stone dressings, plain tiled roof, pyramid slate roofed turret, coped verges gable ends, brick stacks, L-plan, originally probably S cell and cross passage block lying roughly North South, C18 wing attached at South West corner, turret and porch set in angle on entrance front. Entrance front: 2 storeys, 2:1:3 bays; 12-pane sash windows in moulded surrounds set in angle pyramid roofed 2 storey canted bag with 3-light mullioned casements, flat roofed single storey 3 sided projection left with 3-light mullioned window, right similar one bay addition containing porch, entrance pointed arch doorway, C19 plank door with decorative fringes, square hood mould with carved foliage terminals; 4 bay single storey slate roofed verandah carried on wooden piers North West front, set on axis with entrance. Garden front: long 4 bay arcade, C19 nullioned windows with full height canted bay. Interior not viewed; said to contain evidence of jointed cruck roof and early C17 plasterwork decoration on first floor. Forecourt wall: probably C18, subsequently altered. Red brick, Flemish bond, rubble plinth, sandstone coping, about 3 metres high abutting North gable end and continued East as retaining wall to garden. Late C19 dwarf wall enclosing forecourt on West front. At one time this is thought to have been a coaching inn and a cobbled pavement is said to survive below the forecourt. Prior to 1880 the property was known as Southwick House. (C. Hallam, the History of Trull, 1952; VA6 Report, unpublished SRO, October 1972).
Listing NGR: ST2137622241
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270720
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hallam, C, The History of Trull, (1953)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in October, (1972)
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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