Glen House
GLEN HOUSE, QUAPERLAKE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346193
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Glen House
- Statutory Address:
- GLEN HOUSE, QUAPERLAKE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346193
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Glen House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEN HOUSE, QUAPERLAKE STREET
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:
- GLEN HOUSE, QUAPERLAKE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bruton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 68487 34958
Details
BRUTON CP QUAPERLAKE STREET (South side) ST6834NW 8/165 Glen House (also known as The Glen) 24.3.61 GV II
House, end of row. C17 and C18. Local stone cut and squared, Doulting stone dressings; Ludlow pattern concrete tile roof with plain gables; brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. 'T'-plan with additions; 2 storeys with attic, 4-bays. Plinth; left of bay 1 an oval first floor window in plain surround; to bay 1 lower a 4- light ovolo mould timber frame window, above a composite 2-light casement; to bay 2 a 12-pane sash window at mezzanine level; to bay 3 a C20 glazed door in stone surround with fluted attached Doric columns carrying entablature with modillions and metopes, flat head, with recessed footscraper on right side; bay 4 has upper 4-pane sash window; several former window openings blocked. Rear elevation in Regency style, featuring a timber fret balcony on a fan corbel to one bedroom. To east rear a former dairy wing incorporating several C18 carved stones, and several others in use as garden ornaments, all probably from Bruton Abbey, demolished after 1786. Inside early shutters to ovolo mould window and two 2- panel doors to that room, circular wood stair next to fireplace in gable wall; a C18 dining room; lantern-lit staircase of C18 style. Once the house of Mr. Wood, silk throwster, who had a large pleasure ground and garden; Sexey's school began here in 1889 whilst the present premises were being built. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972).
Listing NGR: ST6848734958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261638
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, (1972)
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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