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Latitude: 51.2215 / 51°13'17"N
Longitude: -3.6363 / 3°38'10"W
OS Eastings: 285825
OS Northings: 148189
OS Grid: SS858481
Mapcode National: GBR L9.3BMB
Mapcode Global: VH5JV.XKHH
Plus Code: 9C3R69C7+HF
Entry Name: Ashley Combe Lodge
Listing Date: 2 January 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1058042
English Heritage Legacy ID: 265456
ID on this website: 101058042
Location: Porlock Weir, Somerset, TA24
County: Somerset
District: Somerset West and Taunton
Civil Parish: Porlock
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Gatehouse Thatched cottage
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PORLOCK CP
ASHLEY COMBE
PORLOCK WEIR
Ashley Combe Lodge
II
Lodge to Ashley Combe (demolished) and toll house. Late C19. Possibly by Lady Lovelace. Red sandstone random rubble, brick dressings, hipped thatched roof, roughcast stacks left gable end and between second and third bays left.
Plan: gateway with dwelling to north, curved east facade extended by full height curved wall with archway, serpentine west front. Arts and Crafts picturesque style.
West front: two storeys, three windows face left of semicircular headed archway, skew brick arch, lancet to right, Lombardic frieze cornice to curved walls only, all two-light many paned casements, left two bays with central plank door, bay to left facade bulges forward with asymmetrically placed windows and plank door in curved wall by gateway.
East front: Lombardic frieze cornice continued around curved retaining wall with semi-circular headed archway to footpath, closed by C20 wooden gate. Pair of semi-circular headed many paned windows first floor, similar window below, lancet to right of archway to toll road closed by C20 wooden gate. Interior not seen. Northern two bays probably a nearly contemporary extension. Ashley Combe was demolished in 1974.
Listing NGR: SS8582548189
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