Description

PORLOCK CP HAWKCOMBE
SS84NE

3/54 Combe Garden

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- II

Hunting lodge, now dwelling. Circa 1900. Rendered over rubble, applied decorative timber framing first floor, triple
Roman tiled pyramid roof with catslide roofs to rear, brick stacks, external stack on service wing. L-plan: open hall
house with top lit gallery, service wing to rear. Arts and Crafts style. Two storeys north-west front 4 bays, all
windows with leaded lights, two 2-light oriel windows left of 6-light hall window with quatrefoil heads, canted oriel
on corner right, ground floor mixed coeval fenestration, lean-to roofed porch third bay left, 3-light window, entered
on west front, stable type door with decorative hinges; right return (south-west) front central oriel, oeil-de-boeuf
right, small 2-light window left, ground floor right one bay verandah or sleeping porch, south-east front 2 oriel
windows; to right set back service wing. Interior: more or less complete set of original fittings in dark stained soft
wood, applied half-timbering, built in cupboards with decorative hinges and window seats to oriels; unusual plan of
full height hall with fireplace left opening right into single storey room, carved design of swans set into beam,
gallery facing with aoveable screen to form room on first floor landing, top lit with bedrooms opening off. Interior
reminiscent of Barvarian hunting lodge; thought to be built by the Lovelaces from Ashley Combe. Formerly known as
Windrush.

Listing NGR: SS8763445795

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26310194

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)