ALDON HOUSE, WITH ASSOCIATED STONE STAIRWAY AND WALLS IMMEDIATELY EAST AND WEST OF HOUSE

ALDON HOUSE, WITH ASSOCIATED STONE STAIRWAY AND WALLS IMMEDIATELY EAST AND WEST OF HOUSE, DORCHESTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366645
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: ALDON HOUSE, WITH ASSOCIATED STONE STAIRWAY AND WALLS IMMEDIATELY EAST AND WEST OF HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ALDON HOUSE, WITH ASSOCIATED STONE STAIRWAY AND WALLS IMMEDIATELY EAST AND WEST OF HOUSE, DORCHESTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366645
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: ALDON HOUSE, WITH ASSOCIATED STONE STAIRWAY AND WALLS IMMEDIATELY EAST AND WEST OF HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ALDON HOUSE, WITH ASSOCIATED STONE STAIRWAY AND WALLS IMMEDIATELY EAST AND WEST OF HOUSE, DORCHESTER ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ALDON HOUSE, WITH ASSOCIATED STONE STAIRWAY AND WALLS IMMEDIATELY EAST AND WEST OF HOUSE, DORCHESTER ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Yeovil
National Grid Reference:: ST 55477 15029

Details

ST51NE YEOVIL CP DORCHESTER ROAD (off)

2/19 Aldon House, with associated stone stairway and walls immediately East and West of house

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Country House, of early C19. Ham stone ashlar, with Welsh slated roof partly hidden behind parapets, stone chimney stacks. U-shaped plan of 2-storeys, with smaller scale 3-storey additions to North West side. Entrance facade faces South West, and is of 5-bays, the centre bay recessed, with projecting wings to either side. The central semi- circular arched doorway now blocked flush, and a single storey porch has been built to bay 5 alongside the projecting wing; plain, panelled on either side of doorway, simple cornice and parapet block, 6-panel door in recess: to ground floor bays 1, 2 and 4 semi-circular headed sash windows of 9-panes with radials, having keystones above and recessed aprons below: above a band course and then 5 matching windows, the centre being one pane deeper and having a little stone balustrade across the bottom: a string course at impost level runs as arching over the window; above again a band course and open balustered parapet except for bay 3, which has a crude cornice and parapet block. The projecting wings have blind arched recesses to the sides, and at ground floor level front are Venetian windows of which the centre light is blocked in both cases: above these a single l2-pane sash window set in an architrave, with semi-blocked segmental arch over. The quoins are rusticated pilaster strips: there is an open pediment to the gable. There are various stacks - a group of 4 in the North-west corner have been arched together to form a Quasi turret. There is a stone wall from the North West corner with a sweep, which then returns South-Westwards to screen the stable area - this section of wall, about 2.5 metres high, as pilasters and a niche. The South-East garden front has 3-bays; the 2 left-hand have two 12-pane sash windows at both levels, set in architraves, the ground floor windows having bracketted hoods; there is an eaves cornice. The third bay is in the form of an end gable with a 2-storey angled bay with matching sashes - that to the centre ground floor having a pediment - the gable is also in the form of a pediment. The North East rear elevation is more complex, with 3-Dutch gables and transomed windows of C17 character. Adjacent to the main house towards Northern corner a fine flight of stone steps with open stone balusters with circular motif, with a length of return path, and trim running North Eastwards 50 metres of good stone retaining wall with central stone flight of stairs. The interior of the house not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST5547715029

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.