ASHCOTT HOUSE

ASHCOTT HOUSE, BATH ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344970
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1963
List Entry Name:: ASHCOTT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ASHCOTT HOUSE, BATH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344970
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1963
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: ASHCOTT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ASHCOTT HOUSE, BATH 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:: ASHCOTT HOUSE, BATH ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ashcott
National Grid Reference:: ST4323537044

Details

ST43NW 2/1 29.3.63

ASHCOTT CP BATH ROAD (North side) Ashcott House (formerly listed as Ashcott House and Ashcott Hall)

II

Country house, subsequently school, now empty. Mid C18, some C19 additions and alterations. Stucco scribed as ashlar, ground floor of rusticated ashlar, colourwashed, rusticated ashlar quoins, wide bracketed eaves, asbestos slate roof, ashlar stack to left, rendered stock to right; plain bands at first and second floor levels. Three storeys, 2:1:2 bays, symmetrical frontage, 9 and 12-pane sash windows in moulded architraves, slightly cambered heads, emphasised keys; Venetian windows in a similar surround to centre of first floor, 3:13:3 panes; segmental headed sash to centre of second floor. Central door opening, paired 3-panelled doors, top 2 panels glazed, in a semi-circular head opening with an architrave, fanlight with radiating glazing bars; projecting non-conforming flat- roofed porch. Embattled single-bay wing set back to each side, to left hipped double Roman tile roof, to right slate roof, rusticated ashlar quoins, sash windows in conforming style except those to left of 4 panes. Two large semi-circular head opening to left return. Interior with 2 fireplaces and some ornamental plasterwork. Range of outbuildings at the rear are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: ST4323537044

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Legacy System number:: 269229
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.