Description

ST49NW SOMERTON CP BROAD STREET (East side)

9/138 Medwyn House
(formerly listed as Medwyn) and
front boundary wall and railings

17.4.59

GV II

House in row. C17 origins, modified later C18. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate roof
over stone slate base courses; stone chimney stack to coped north gable. Two storeys, 2 bays. Paired 12-pane sash
windows with hood moulds, probably trimmed labels from earlier windows; to lower bay 2 a cambered arched doorway with
incised spandrils and moulded jambs, and above a C20 small concrete hood on brackets. Interior not seen, but VCH speaks
of a long wing to the rear; room at east end has open fireplace adjoining a spiral staircase and smoke chamber; in an
upper room a decorative plaster frieze of late C16/early C17, and some reset panelling dated 1623 in the entrance
passage; a fine overmantel said to have come from this house now at the Old Parsonage, Parsonage Hill (qv). 1 metre in
front of house, stone wall about 750mm high, with Ham stone copings and gabletted capped piers, with cast iron railings
having quatrefoil motif, and matching gate, adding to setting of house. Formerly one house with Stocker's House (qv),
attached to south. (VCH, Volume III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4912128634

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26471827

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)