WEST COMPTON HOUSE, FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS ON ROADSIDE

WEST COMPTON HOUSE, FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS ON ROADSIDE, WEST COMPTON

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1345021
Date first listed:: 02-Jun-1961
List Entry Name:: WEST COMPTON HOUSE, FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS ON ROADSIDE
Statutory Address:: WEST COMPTON HOUSE, FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS ON ROADSIDE, WEST COMPTON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1345021
Date first listed:: 02-Jun-1961
List Entry Name:: WEST COMPTON HOUSE, FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS ON ROADSIDE
Statutory Address 1:: WEST COMPTON HOUSE, FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS ON ROADSIDE, WEST COMPTON

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WEST COMPTON HOUSE, FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS ON ROADSIDE, WEST COMPTON

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pilton
National Grid Reference:: ST 59397 42245

Details

ST54SE PILTON CP WEST COMPTON

4/163 West Compton House, forecourt wall and piers on roadside

2.6.61

- II*

Farmhouse, later altered to a small country residence, C17; mid C18 alterations for Bisse family. Rendered, tile roof, coped verges, brick stacks on ashlar bases, plinth band, moulded first floor band, moulded cornice, parapet with a moulded coping, emphasised dressed stone quoins. Symmetrical Palladian frontage. Two storeys and basement, 3:3 bays, 12-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars in edge moulded stone architraves; central half glazed door in a moulded architrave, flat-moulded cornice on acanthus leaf brackets; oblong panel set directly over with scrolly side brackets; 6 stone steps to door, top step renewed in concrete. Entrance to basement to left of frontage, paired plank doors, cambered head. Interior with fine dog leg staircase, turned and twisted balusters, ramped handrail, tread brackets; fireplace to ground floor in a dressed stone surround; further lesser features. Rubble wall to right of frontage, dressed stone coping ramped up at end, bead moulded door opening; rubble forecourt wall; square ashlar gate piers to centre with moulded caps and pineapple finials in acanthus left cuppings; rusticated end piers, ball caps; further door opening to left, rusticated jambs; wall coping ramped up to each end and at gate piers. Central gateway reached by a set of 5 rubble steps. C20 wooden gates not of special interest. (Phelps, The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire, 1839; VAG report, unpublished SRO, no date).

Listing NGR: ST5939742245

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 267637
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Phelps, , The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire, (1839)
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, ()

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.