Merfield House
MERFIELD HOUSE, STRAIGHT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1345393
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Merfield House
- Statutory Address:
- MERFIELD HOUSE, STRAIGHT LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1345393
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Merfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERFIELD HOUSE, STRAIGHT 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MERFIELD HOUSE, STRAIGHT LANE
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 79923 53604
Details
ST75SE RODE CP STRAIGHT LANE (East side)
4/423 Merfield House
11.3.68
GV II*
Country House, c 1810 for Node family. Brick construction, ashlar frontage, moulded cornices, plain parapets with copings, hipped slate roof, 3 ashlar stacks with moulded caps. Symmetrical garden front of three units, 3 storey semi-circular bowed centre of 3 bays, 2-storey single bay wing to each side; panelled corner pilasters to each side and between the units; sash windows with glazing bars, tall 3-light casement windows with marginal lights to ground floor of centre 3 bays; plain first floor band. Door opening in left return of 3 bays, paired half-glazed doors with marginal lights; single storey projecting flat-roofed ashlar porch, pair of Grecian columns supporting an entablature with triglyphs and a moulded cornice. Interior retains many original features including much decorative plaster work, particularly to stair well where the cornice is decorated with triglyphs and guttae; the external bow of the centre 3 bays is reflected in a corresponding curve to the rear walls of the centre rooms of the house on the first and ground floors.
Listing NGR: ST7992353604
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267370
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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