Description

ILMINSTER

ST3414 STATION ROAD 1939-1/6/128 (South side) 23/09/50 No.29 The Hermitage and attached pier and walls

GV II

House. Mid C16 origins, mostly c1840. Coursed limestone rubble; pantile roof with stone coping and moulded kneelers; brick stacks to right-of-centre, left gable end and rear right. 3-unit lobby-entrance main block with single-storey wing to rear right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 4-window range. The C20 planked door, above the road to right-of-centre, has a flat stone porch on brackets, steps up from the left, and is flanked by 3-light casements. The first floor has a 2-light casement to the far left, and three 3-light ones to centre and right. Those to the far right have 2 panes to each light, others are leaded. The right return has a C17 stone mullioned window to each floor, 3-light to the attic, and 4-light ones below, all with hoodmoulds. INTERIOR: There is an inglenook fireplace with an oak lintel to the main room, otherwise mostly of c1840 character; some 6-panel doors, some 4-panel; Regency-style fireplace and cornice to the main bedroom. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to the south-west corner of the house is an early/mid C19 semicircular archway to the garden with beaded arrises and reeded imposts; continuing southwards is approx 40m of high limestone rubble wall with Ham Hill stone coping; a tall Ham Hill stone gate pier with a pyramidal cap at the corner where the wall turns to enclose the south side of the garden; this stretch of approx 30m has large C19 buttresses on the outside; the wall continues along the east side approx 30m. C20 gate to the arch and two C20 garages to the southerly end of the street wall. HISTORY: a cottage called The Hermitage was recorded standing on the site in 1540-1. The house was the residence of George P R Pulman (d.1880), author of The Book of The Axe, a history of the towns on that river. Between 1849 and 1851 he issued the United Counties Miscellany, was editor of the Yeovil Times, in 1857 founded the first newspaper in Crewkerne, Pulman's Weekly News and Advertiser. It was printed by hand for over a year until the first printing machine was brought into the town, and in 1862 steam power was installed.

Listing NGR: ST3553614766

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