PENNARD HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345179
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: PENNARD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: PENNARD HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345179
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: PENNARD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PENNARD HOUSE

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:: PENNARD HOUSE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: East Pennard
National Grid Reference:: ST 59695 37600

Details

EAST PENNARD CP ST5937 EAST PENNARD VILLAGE 15/162 Pennard House - GV II

Country house in an emparked landscape. Dated on a rainwater head 1815, though site occupied earlier, possibly C17; some C18 fragments remain. Incised render, freestone cornice, hipped and gabled slate roofs, C20 stacks. Shallow U-shaped frontage with canted wings, Classical, Three storeys, l:4:1 bays, glazing bar sash windows, tripartite sash windows with Gothick glazing to heads in outer bays. Stone colonnade to ground floor between the wings, 4 pairs of Doric columns and responds, entablature in simplified style; paired half-glazed doors under with transomlight in second bay. West elevation with a re-set stone pedinented C18 Doric doorcase, and 2 tripartite sash windows with Gothick plating to heads. South front with an elaborate late C19 conservatory; 3-storeyed section to the left, canted 2-storeyed bay to right, stone cornice, blocking course; predominantly sash windows, mostly with glazing bars, some late C19 French windows to ground floor with fretwork blindboxes. East front with a central canted bay in conforming style. Interior with early C19 features, some C18 work remains, some Victorian alteration. Ground floor with principal reception rooms with ornamental plaster cornices, chimneypieces, and window shutters; room to north-east with fitted ornamental cupboards with doors with glazing bars. Hall with broad panelled archway, Victorian tile floor. Staircase with simple stick balusters, moulded handrail, turned newels, adjacent dado panelling. Former kitchen with good lias flagstone floor. Further interesting doors, shutters, plasterwork and chimneypieces throughout the building; billiard room on first floor with plaster vaulting. Cellars with vaulting and wine bins.

Listing NGR: ST5968937594

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Legacy System number:: 268372
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.