Description

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SX 99 NE
5/29

BROADCLYST
Kerswell House

II

House. Circa 1840. Sandstone coursed rubble with Beer stone dressing, and slate roofs, all wings gabled-ended. A good asymmetrical design in a Tudor domestic style with varied detailing. Two storeys with attics throughout.

Entrance front: two wings of different widths with a projecting gabled porch and recessed stack between. Coped gables with pinnacle/pendants to prominent gable apexes. Single light attic windows to wings. Right-hand wing has a first storey tripartite stone oriel, two timber barred sashes to each light, the central sash with margin panes. Ground floor two-light window with stone transom and mullion under heavy hood mould, one pane to upper light, two to lower, all with margin panes. Left-hand wing much narrower; first floor window, two lights, with stone mullion, two four-pane sashes to each light; single-light ground floor window with two four-pane sashes, both windows under heavy hood-moulds. Porch with moulded pinnacle above four-centred arch and square-headed hood-mould with floriated spandrels. Recessed stack creates depth to entrance front with corbel table under four grouped and moulded Beer stone chimneys.

Garden front: a more relaxed composition of three units. Central wing, gable end with parapet and pinnacle/pendants to apex and angles and, below an attic window, a two-storey window bay with a crenellated frieze dividing each storey. Three-light windows to front of bay, one to each side, under hood moulds, all lights with two pane sashes with margin panes. The front to left of wing with two-light window above (with two four-pane sashes to each light), and a three-light window to ground floor with two 6-pane sashes to each light. To right of wing, two first storey windows with two four-pane sashes to each light, one two-light ground-floor window, six panes to each sash. All windows under hood moulds. At the right-hand angle of this front is a ground-floor window bay set diagonally, with a pair of single-light windows under the same hood mould, two six-pane sashes to each light. All sashes contemporary and timber. Other elevations all treated more simply, windows, with moulded architraves plus later barred timber sashes.

Historical note: the writer, Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) lived for many years at Kerswell House and died here.

Listing NGR: SX9808995987

External Links

• Wikidata Q26618362

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)