Alford House
ALFORD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366367
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Alford House
- Statutory Address:
- ALFORD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366367
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Alford House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALFORD 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:
- ALFORD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 60577 32673
Details
ALFORD CP ST63SW 1/1 Alford House GV II
Detached house, now subdivided. Late C18, but remodelled by F C Penrose in 1877. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; hipped Welsh slate roofs behind low parapets; stone chimney stacks. In a neo- Elizabethan style. Two and 3 storeys with attics; west elevation of 5 bays, of which bays 2 and 4 project slightly, and are taller. Ovolo-moulded mullioned windows, with transomes and flat heads to ground floor, first floor windows have 3-centre arched lights, all with hood moulds, all 2- light except centre bay, which has 3: bays 2 and 4 have margined sash windows in pointed arched openings to second floor, other bays have timber gabled pitched roof dormers: semi-circular arched openings in porches set proud of main building bays 2 and 4, having flat roofs behind parapets crowned with ball and obelisk finials; bellcote on roof between bays 1 and 2. South elevation of 3 bays to match, with projecting 2-storey bay window in centre, and dormer windows to each bay. East elevation incorporates an octagonal stair turret with slated spirelet roof. Interior not inspected, but apparently not much altered. (Pevsner N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, l958.
Listing NGR: ST6058132679
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261934
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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