Description

CREWKERNE

ST4309 ABBEY STREET
876-1/6/14 (South side)
12/06/50 Abbey House

GV II

House. Mid C19, on site of a former Clergy House. Limestone
ashlar with Ham Hill stone quoins, plinth and dressings; slate
roof with stepped stone coping and stone stacks. Double-depth
plan with service wing to the right. Tudor-Revival style.
2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Between the 2
forward-facing shouldered gables with moulded kneelers, is a
corbelled-out oriel window to the first floor; this has dagger
tracery, and a moulded and castellated cornice. Below is a
diagonally planked and studded door flanked by single-light,
deeply recessed, narrow windows. All the other casement
windows have label moulds and horizontal glazing bars to each
light; single-light to the attics, and 2-light, C19,
cross-windows below. To the right is a single-storey gabled
wing with one tall narrow window. A C15 stone-mullioned window
with leaded lights, from the former Chantry House on the site,
has been repositioned as a stair-window to the rear; it has a
tall label mould over 2-lights with cinquefoil heads; the
space below the label mould has 4 small trefoil-headed lights.
INTERIOR: entry refused but noted as having C19 features.

Listing NGR: ST4391209845

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503121

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