De Montalt Wood
DE MONTALT WOOD, SUMMER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395198
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- De Montalt Wood
- Statutory Address:
- DE MONTALT WOOD, SUMMER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395198
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- De Montalt Wood
- Statutory Address 1:
- DE MONTALT WOOD, SUMMER LANE
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:
- DE MONTALT WOOD, SUMMER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 76070 61957
Details
SUMMER LANE, Combe Down (South side (off)) 656-1/71/2005 De Montalt Wood
(Formerly Listed as: SUMMER LANE, Combe Down De Montalt) 05/08/75 II
Detached villa in own grounds. Dated 1848. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: Picturesque Italianate villa to L-plan, with gables in four directions. EXTERIOR: Two storeys, windows mainly plain sash. Entrance front has gable to right with eight-pane sash in moulded architrave and with segmental pediment on deep scroll supporters above square porch with balustrade with date stone, on arched doorway to heavy archivolt with imposts with steel doors and fanlight, all to four steps with open balustrade to terminal piers and ball finials. Inner doors are panelled, with fanlight. To left arched light to heavy stone balcony above triple arched light with archivolt on imposts, pilaster mullions, and apron panels. Plinth, mid platband, deep eaves and overhang to gable, detail also to other fronts. To right set back rear gabled wing. Large triple ashlar stack with skirt and heavy pedimented capping to left of gabled end. Return, to main garden front, has gable to right with arched light to heavy stone balconette above large eight-pane sash with apron panel, to left tripartite sash above canted bay with moulded cornice and balustrade over deep French casements, to centre on flight of five steps. Large ashlar stack with four shafts to left, as on front range. At corner late C20 conservatory, and return has three-pane sash at first floor, with additions at ground floor, including steel casement. Rear gable has small square stack, but with capping as others, larger stack to right gable external. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: A picturesque Italianate villa in the manner of H.E. Goodridge, which visually and historically forms a group with the De Montalt works [q.v.]. The Goodridge attribution is strengthened by the fact that Goodridge¿s architect son Alfred lived here around 1870. Another occupant was John Whitaker, furniture manufacturer and proprietor of the De Montalt Works. SOURCE: Peter Addison, `Around Combe Down¿ (1998), 7 3, 93-94.
Listing NGR: ST7607061957
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510612
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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