COMBE HOUSE HOTEL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345685
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: COMBE HOUSE HOTEL
Statutory Address:: COMBE HOUSE HOTEL

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Date:: 2002-08-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345685
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: COMBE HOUSE HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: COMBE HOUSE HOTEL

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:: COMBE HOUSE HOTEL

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Holford
National Grid Reference:: ST 15119 40528

Details

ST14SE HOLFORD CP HOLFORD COMBE

6/94 Combe House Hotel

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GV II

Tannery and dwelling, now hotel. C16-C17, enlarged early C19. Colourwashed random rubble left, rendered right, steeply pitched slate roof left, double span shallow pitch slate roof right with pantiled rear span, brick stacks left and right of left block and left gabled end of right block. Plan: modified 3 cell and cross passage with double pile right. One and a half and two and a half storeys, 5:3 bays; right block 3 segmental headed 2-light dormers, rest 12 pane sash windows, central open pediment pilaster doorcase, dentil moulding, half glazed door; left five 12 pane sash windows, forth window larger with gabled top, probably a loft entrance with hoist originally, ground floor 12 pane sash windows flanking entrance, C20 French windows to left, C20 2-light window beyond and small glazed opening. C20 glazed door, porch, wrought iron balcony carried on wooden columns with low rendered wall. Raking buttresses on right return, left return abutting tannery outbuildings (qv). Interior: chamfered beams with steps and runout stops, moulded dorway with 4 centred arch head in room to left, collar and principal roof. There was an extensive tannery here in 1840, but by 1910 it had become a private hotel. (VCH Somerset, Vol.5 forthcoming; photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST1511940528

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Legacy System number:: 265155
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.