CHELVEY COURT AND BRIDGE TO THE EAST AND 2 OUTBUILDINGS TO THE SOUTH WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1312236
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: CHELVEY COURT AND BRIDGE TO THE EAST AND 2 OUTBUILDINGS TO THE SOUTH WEST
Statutory Address:: CHELVEY COURT AND BRIDGE TO THE EAST AND 2 OUTBUILDINGS TO THE SOUTH WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1312236
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: CHELVEY COURT AND BRIDGE TO THE EAST AND 2 OUTBUILDINGS TO THE SOUTH WEST
Statutory Address 1:: CHELVEY COURT AND BRIDGE TO THE EAST AND 2 OUTBUILDINGS TO THE SOUTH WEST

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:: CHELVEY COURT AND BRIDGE TO THE EAST AND 2 OUTBUILDINGS TO THE SOUTH WEST

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

District:: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brockley
National Grid Reference:: ST 46549 68382

Details

ST 46 NE BROCKLEY CHELVEY (north side)

6/53 Chelvey Court and Bridge to the east and 2 Outbuildings to the G.V. south-west - -

II*

Large manor or court house. Circa 1618 to 1660 for Edward and John Tynte; altered (the south part demolished) in 1805. Coursed rubble with freestone dressings, pantiled roof, hipped at south end behind a coped parapet. L-plan with north wing. 3 storeys and attics. East elevation. 4 bays: 2-light casement windows, French windows on the ground floor; large central buttress with off-sets (all 1805). To the left of the buttress on the ground floor is a panelled door in a chamfered surround with a segmental head; moulded cornice on brackets. On the first floor at the far left is a projecting, square ashlar porch with an elaborate openwork balustrade; panelled door in moulded surround with imposts and a depressed 4-centred head; frieze of roses; one twisted column survives to the left; open segmental pediment with, in the tympanum, the arms of John Tynte on a cartouche and flanked by bunches of fruit; the pediment is flanked by tapering pilasters; all in a mannerist fashion. The porch is reached by a single arched rubble bridge, approximately 3-4 yards long. North elevation is irregular with 2 gables and a mixture of single, 2- and 3-light casement windows with ovolo moulded mullions and under dripmoulds. The west elevation is irregular of 5 bays with 2- and 3-light casement and cross windows (some blocked) with ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds, under dripmoulds and relieving arches. The outbuildings to the south-west consist of the remains of a square, rubble tower with a single light window in a moulded surround; and an adjoining building which has a chamfered doorway with a segmental head under a dripstone, in the gable end. Interior. Throughout the building are fragments of C17 panelling and doors. Ground floor: rear (west) living room (formerly a kitchen) has a panelled fire surround with a 6-row spit rack above, against the south wall is a bench table with a moulded cornice and resting on chamfered, square uprights; the central front (east) room has a moulded ashlar fire surround with a 4-centred head and an arched ashlar doorway with a keystone and imposts, large studded and panelled door. First floor: the inner door is panelled and has a moulded surround with a 4-centred head; the Blue- Room (centre east) has grained and painted panelling with a bead and reel edging which retains traces of gilding, large painted ashlar fireplace with a 4-centred head, a frieze of strapwork, lozenges within squares and circles, a dentilled cornice on brackets and an overmantel bearing the Tynte and Gorges arms; to the right (north) of the Blue Room is a bedroom which has panelled surrounds to the windows, as in the Blue Room but now overpainted, a central oval ceiling panel which is embellished with foliage and painted and gilded,and an ashlar fireplace with a moulded surround and a 4-centred head. The top floor has 2 further, similar fireplaces, some panelled doors and a coved cornice in one room. Large open well staircase rises through the 3 floors: turned balusters moulded closed string and moulded handrails, panelled newel posts with ball finials; the ceiling has a large plaster pendant ornamented with foliage and fruit and it is surrounded by a ribbed rosette with flower and thistle motifs. (Country Life, 21.V.1910. N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST4654768382

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Legacy System number:: 33445
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
'Country Life' in 21 May, (1910)

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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.