LANGHAM HOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLES

LANGHAM HOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLES, RODE HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1345390
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: LANGHAM HOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLES
Statutory Address:: LANGHAM HOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLES, RODE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1345390
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: LANGHAM HOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLES
Statutory Address 1:: LANGHAM HOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLES, RODE HILL

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:: LANGHAM HOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLES, RODE HILL

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Rode
National Grid Reference:: ST 80452 54238

Details

ST8054 RODE CP RODE HILL (North side)

12/411 Langham House and attached stables

11.3.68

GV II*

Country House. Reputedly 1792 by T Baldwin for William Lydyard addition of 1810. Ashlar, moulded cornice, balustraded parapet with coping, stone urns at the angles, hipped slate roof, 2 low ashlar stacks with moulded caps. Classical. 3 storeys 5 bays, sash windows with glazing bars, those to ground floor with semi- circular heads in shallow arched recesses; plain stone band at second floor level, moulded string below cornice, impost band with interlacement decoration to ground floor. Central door opening, 6-panelled door, fanlight with decorative glazing bars; stone portico with flat entablature of 4 Tuscan columns, Tuscan pilasters to wall. Single storey wing of 3 bays to right by Adam, tall French windows with glazing bars and marginal lights, moulded cornice, baluster parapet with corner urn, hipped slate roof. Single storey, 3-bay semi-circular bow window to rear elevation, sash windows with glazing bars, balustraded parapet, corner urns. Attached stables to rear of right return, hipped slate roof, 2 broad segmental headed openings to ground floor, plank door, above 2 glazed pitching eyes. Complete late C18 interior entered through a hall flanked by 2 Tuscan columns; most of the ground floor rooms with plaster friezes and cornices, the finest in the dining room, most fireplaces also remain. In 1860 the house achieved notoriety as the scene of the mysterious murder of 3 year old Francis Savill Kent. At that time it was known as Road Hill House, the name subsequently changed because of the attention the murder attracted. (Yseult Bridges, Saint with Red Hands, Jarrolds, 1954; Bernard Taylor, Cruelly Murdered, Souvenir Press, 1979).

Listing NGR: ST8045254238

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Legacy System number:: 267358
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Taylor, B, Cruelly Murdered, (1979)
Yseult, B, Saint With Red Hands, (1954)

Legal

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