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Bickham and Walls Enclosing Garden on North East Front

A Grade II Listed Building in Timberscombe, Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1657 / 51°9'56"N

Longitude: -3.5027 / 3°30'9"W

OS Eastings: 295027

OS Northings: 141789

OS Grid: SS950417

Mapcode National: GBR LH.6VV4

Mapcode Global: VH5K4.7YMR

Plus Code: 9C3R5F8W+7W

Entry Name: Bickham and Walls Enclosing Garden on North East Front

Listing Date: 22 May 1969

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1175200

English Heritage Legacy ID: 265384

ID on this website: 101175200

Location: Timberscombe, Somerset, TA24

County: Somerset

District: Somerset West and Taunton

Civil Parish: Timberscombe

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


SS94SE TlMBERSCOMBE CP
TIMBERSCOMBE VILLAGE

7/101 Bickham and walls enclosing
garden on north-east front

22.5.69

- II

Manor house. Part of the medieval manor and chapel may be incorporated into the C17 L-plan house, west wing added C18,
reroofed, enlarged on south west front early C20 and house roughcast, Roughcast over rubble, plinth to east wing and
centre block, slate roofs, gabled fronted overhanging eaves, large external stacks to kitchen gable end and to west
gable end. Tall early C20 roughcast stacks. Plan: irregular U-plan; probably 3-cell and cross passage with cross wing,
corridor inserted on north west front when entrance resited and balancing cross wing added; facing north west with
2-bay loggia right and walls enclosing garden left. north west front: 2 storeys with attic, 2:3:2 bays, irregularly
gabled centre, gabled wings, glazed roundels gable ends, others all 12-pane sash windows, empty semi-circular headed
niche above central entrance, 3 X 4 panel door with raised surrounds, early C20 flat roofed porch carried on shaped
brackets with dentil moulded cornice, 4 curved stops. To right catslide roof with dormer over 2 bay loggia, right
return similarly gabled and fenestrated, 2 windows first floor, 3 ground floor. Rear elevation 2:5 bays, gable end
left, irregularly placed 12-pane sash windows, C18 door to cross passage between second and third bays right. Interior:
partially viewed. Main feature of interest is dogleg stair with mid-late C18 Chinese Chippendale style dog-gate and
short section of balustrade between colonnettes, moulded surround with keystone to semi-circular arched opening to
stairwell. Reset t16 panelling with frieze in room beyond. Wall enclosing garden on north east front including 2 bay
structure abutting house, red sandstone random rubble, about 3 metres high. This was the home of the Elsworth family
one of whom, Richard, endowed the school (not included) at Timberscombe, commemorated by a handsome plaque on the
subsequently altered building. The chest tomb of William Withycombe (qv) of Bickham is in the churchyard of St John the
Baptist, Carhampton CP. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).


Listing NGR: SS9502741789

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