Description

ST5616SW YEOVIL CP SHERBORNE ROAD (South-east side)

6/97 No 10
(Osborne House), with front
boundary wall, railings and gate
piers

11.3.51

GV II

Vills, c1840. Roughcast, hipped Welsh slated roof with wide soffites, brick
chimney stack on left-hand side. 2-storeys of 3-bays. Central fine projecting
porch set on 5 steps, with fluted Ionic columns and attached columns supporting
full entablature and flat roof: 6-panel door, the top 2 panels having been
removed to make one glazed panel; 16-pane sash windows to both levels, excluding
the right-hand ground floor window, currently 2-light casement window. Inside,
the right-hand room has an ornamental plaster ceiling and incised plaster panels
to the walls (1 panel damaged); the rear left-hand bedroom also has some fine
plasterwork. One or two C19 early fireplaces; most original doors and doorcases
survive, as do the fairly plain main and servants' staircases. (Property
undergoing restoration January 1983). High stone wall to front boundary capped
by C19 railings, with 2 pairs of simple gate piers with moulded caps - the gates
missing. The home of Earle Vincent, brewer and developer, active late C19.

Listing NGR: ST5620316077

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26468441

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas