Terrace on South Side of Brympton House
TERRACE ON SOUTH SIDE OF BRYMPTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345766
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Terrace on South Side of Brympton House
- Statutory Address:
- TERRACE ON SOUTH SIDE OF BRYMPTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345766
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Terrace on South Side of Brympton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TERRACE ON SOUTH SIDE OF BRYMPTON HOUSE
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:
- TERRACE ON SOUTH SIDE OF BRYMPTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brympton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 51985 15406
Details
ST5115 BRYMPTON D'EVERCY CP 10/7 Terrace on south side of Brympton House - GV II Raised terrace with balustrade and 3 sets steps. Mid C19. Ham stone. Extending for a total of about 75 metres from the south-east corner of the Chantry House (q.v) across the south elevation of Brympton House (q.v) to Summerhouse (q.v) with ashlar retaining wall with chamfered plinth, capped with a stone balustrade copying the details of the attic balustrading of the house, with intermediate piers on which are set a variety of urns and other ornaments, and in the centre of the long western section a block sundial with ball finial, on which is inscribed LAT 50-56, 17.30, having sheet metal gnomons, 2 of which are broken: central stair of 9 straight steps with matching side balustrading, and at each end are secondary stairs running parallel to the terrace, with solid balustrading scroll decorated; gravel surface to walkway. This terrace, replacing a plainer one with only a central stair illustrated by Kip, c1700, was installed by Lady Georgina Fane, who ran the estate from 1857-1875. (Country Life, 26th November, 1898, 30th November 1907 and especially Hussey, C, 7 & 14 May 1927; Clive-Ponsonby-Fane, C: Brympton d'Evercy, Brympton Estates 1980).
Listing NGR: ST5198915409
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263457
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fane, C C P, Brympton D'Evercy Brympton Estates, (1980)
Country Life in 14 May, (1927)
Country Life in 26 November, (1898)
Country Life in 30 November, (1907)
Country Life in 7 May, (1927)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 Somerset,
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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