Glencot and Terraces at Rear

GLENCOT AND TERRACES AT REAR, GLENCOT LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1345154
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Glencot and Terraces at Rear
Statutory Address:
GLENCOT AND TERRACES AT REAR, GLENCOT LANE
Glencot as rebuilt and WSH and wife
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Date:
2005-08-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1345154
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Glencot and Terraces at Rear
Statutory Address 1:
GLENCOT AND TERRACES AT REAR, GLENCOT LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GLENCOT AND TERRACES AT REAR, GLENCOT LANE

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Cuthbert Out
National Grid Reference:
ST5319447030

Details

ST54NW
10/107

ST CUTHBERT OUT CP
GLENCOT LANE (West side)
WOOKEY HOLE
Glencot and terraces at rear

II

(Incorrectly marked on OS map as School). Country house. Lead rainwater head dated: "1887", by George and Peto, for W S
Hodgkinson. Coursed and squared rubble, coped verges with ball finials; prominent ashlar stacks, some polygonal and
grouped; stone slates, lead raingoods. Irregular plan; Jacobean style. Basement, 2 storeys and attic, 2:1:3 bay
entrance frontage; 2, 3 and 4-light stone mullioned windows, some transomed, some leaded lights. Projecting porch,
diagonal buttresses, moulded 4-centred arch door opening, elaborate panelled inner door with carved heads. Ground falls
away to rear, rear elevation of 4 storeys. Terraces with connecting staircases, strapwork parapets, balcony. Richly
fitted interior in C17 style; panelling; coffered ceilings; chimneypieces; main ground floor room with large inglenook
fireplace and fitted settles; dining room with fitted cupboards; library with shelving; staircase with carved baluster
panels; further lesser features. Virtually unaltered inside and out. (Illustrated in The Building News, May 13, 1887;
Architects drawing exhibited at the Royal Academy 1887, now at RIBA).

Listing NGR: ST5319447030

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
268122
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Building News in 13 May, (1887)

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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