Description

SY 29 98 AXMINSTER CHARD STREET
1/20 (north west side)

11.8.50 Oak House
GV
II*

Built in 1758 by Simon Bunter, an Axminster Lawyer. Fine red brick house with stone
dressings. Slate mansard roof with gabled ends. Parapet with putti and urns,
modillion cornice and rusticated quoins. 1:3:1 bays. Centre three bays break forward
with quoins. Sash windows with thick glazing bars in eaved moulded architraves.
Centre first floor Venetian window with Ionic pilasters entablature and arched centre
light. Similar central doorway below with round-headed fanlight and entablature
continued over side lights with pilasters, and with modern panelled door.

Five flat roofed dormers with sashes. Rendered chimney stacks at gable ends. Three
storey, one bay wing set back to left and right, the right hand one has large
segmental fanlight to doorway. Rear elevation has range of C18 sash windows.

Interior: good contemporary open-well staircase with open string, three balusters per
tread and moulded soffit. C18 carved wooden chimneypiece and moulded plaster ceiling
cornices.

Listing NGR: SY2985098677

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546884

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990