Description

ILMINSTER

ST3614 BERRYMAN'S LANE
1939-1/7/7 (East side)
23/09/50 Abbot's Court and attached walls and
gate piers

GV II

Formerly known as: Abbot's Court COURT BARTON.
House. C17, refronted and altered in C19 and 1950. Squared and
coursed limestone rubble with thatched roof to the front,
pantile to the rear; brick stacks to gable ends and centre of
rear. 3-unit plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. Roof raised in C19, and
the original wall-plate has mortices to former mullions in the
soffit, above, but not coinciding with, C19 three-light
casements. The wall above the 2 ranges to right has been
raised further, forming a step in the line of the eaves, and
there are wrought-iron brackets to a former gutter along the
whole facade. The 2 windows to first-floor right are taller
2-light casements. C20 door to the inside right, under a
trellised porch with a hipped lead roof in the style of c1840,
though in fact reconstructed in 1950. Flanking the door are
C20 6/6-pane sashes, one to the right and 2 to the left under
reconstructed stone lintels. To far left is a C19 three-light
window with chamfered stone mullions and cast-iron frames with
small panes, similar to those in the former grammar school,
now No.28 Court Barton (qv), under a segmental relieving arch.
To the left of that, in the adjoining Masonic Lodge (qv), are
2 similarly-shaped windows, one now of fixed plate-glass, and
the other has a 1950 door inserted. The rear is essentially
c1950.
INTERIOR: Passage and lower room to right have blue lias
flagstone floors, room to left, separated by a timbered
lath-and-plaster wall, has 2 chamfered beams and a large C17
fireplace in the rear right corner, with an oak Tudor-arch
lintel. Otherwise interior mainly of C19 character, with a
marble fireplace to the right-hand room, staircase with stick
balusters and turned newel, and 6-panel doors.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: A high limestone rubble wall, attached to
the Masonic Lodge (qv), running 20m south to tall C19 gate
piers at the entrance to a C19 coach house (not included),
encloses the garden to the south, and attaches to the
south-east corner of Abbot's Court. Attached to the north-east
corner is a high C18 Flemish-bond brick wall which runs
northward and attaches to No.56 High Street (qv).

Listing NGR: ST3601514671

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489626

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)