The Court Charlton Mackrell, England

Listed Building Data

The Court has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1056732
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II*
Date Listed
17 April 1959
Name
THE COURT
Location
THE COURT, WEST CHARLTON
Parish
Charlton Mackrell
District
South Somerset
County
Somerset
Grid Reference
ST 52790 28444
Easting
352789.8950
Northing
128443.9480

Listed Building Description

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ST52NW CHARLTON MACKRELL CP WEST CHARLTON (North side) 5/48 The Court

17.4.59

GV II*

Detached house. 1792. Built for Richard Ford, rector. Local lias stone rubble; Welsh slate roof between coped gables; stone chimney stacks. In a Georgian Gothic style. South front 3 storeys, 5 bays. battlemented parapet, from which a centre gable was removed in C19; 16-pane sash windows with Y traceried work at heads, taken down to floor level at ground floor, normal first floor; matching 8-pane sash windows second floor, all set in plain openings with voussoired slightly segmental arched openings; dog guards in iron to lower windows; centre-bay has projecting 2-bay Ham stone porch with pointed arches, battlemented parapet and corner pinnacles with shield of arms in centre: plates for tie bars between all bays. On east elevation a single-light C16 window, also a single-storey C19 angled-bay with battlemented pediment and larger-pane sash windows traceried to match. north elevation random fenestration, cut into hillside and not generally seen, includes larger pointed arched window to staircase. Interior a mixture of Gothic and Regency detail suggesting that internal works were finished over long period; 2 rooms deep; rooms have Regency architraves; some doors replaced with C20 doors; ornamental coved ceilings; through hall has Gothic style cross-screen, and at rear good cantilevered stone stair with Gothic style wrot iron balustrade. Kitchen wing demolished in 1950's and replaced by small extension on west Gable. A rectory, first mentioned 1524, by late C18 decribed as 'very ruinous', and 'repaired' by Richard Ford in 1792, in fact almost totally rebuilt: sold on the merger of the living in 1922. (Victoria County History, Volume III, 1974; Nares G. Country Life: Vol CV11, January 20th 1950).

Listing NGR: ST5278828443