Bilbrook Lodge
BILBROOK LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345619
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bilbrook Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- BILBROOK LODGE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04569/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345619
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bilbrook Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BILBROOK LODGE
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:
- BILBROOK LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Cleeve
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 03173 41070
Details
ST04SW OLD CLEEVE CP BILBROOK
1/59 Bilbrock Lodge
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- II
Farmhouse, now dwelling. C16-C17, altered early C19 and mid C20. Red sandstone randm rubble, rendered on facades with rubble exposed partly on ground floor of main block, slight bell cast to slate roof, brick stacks gable ends and external C20 brick stack on right return of lower, independently roofed gabled wing projecting end bay left. U-plan with addition on facade left. 2 storeys, 1:3 bays, all casements with late C18-early C19 casements with large diamond panes and marginal glazing bars, remains of C17 moulded 3-light casement left, right three 3-light casements under wooden lintels some with quadrant stays, another left of single storey porch, french windows with marginal glazing bars only right, set below longer narrow wooden lintel carried on 2 partially exposed studs, original purpose unclear, single storey hipped slate roofed summer house projection carried on wooden uprights; moulded depressed arch opening to single storey slate roofed porch with moulded plinth and 5 x 3-light glazed door. Sir Hubert Herkomer (1849-1914) the highly sucessful Victorian painter of the social realism school stayed here 1892-7, and the village of Bilbrook was popular with other artists including J W North (1842-1924) and R W Macbeth (1848-1910) in the late C19. (VCH Somerset, Vol 5, forthcoming).
Listing NGR: ST0317341070
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264817
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
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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