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Latitude: 51.2433 / 51°14'35"N
Longitude: -2.2717 / 2°16'18"W
OS Eastings: 381131
OS Northings: 149380
OS Grid: ST811493
Mapcode National: GBR 0S5.VX9
Mapcode Global: VH97F.K0XQ
Plus Code: 9C3V6PVH+88
Entry Name: Berkley House
Listing Date: 11 March 1968
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1058192
English Heritage Legacy ID: 267061
ID on this website: 101058192
Location: Berkley, Somerset, BA11
County: Somerset
District: Mendip
Civil Parish: Berkley
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: House
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BERKLEY CP
BERKLEY STREET (east side)
Berkley House
11.3.68
GV
II*
Country house, mid C18. Probably designed and built by Nathaniel Ireson of Wincanton. Ashlar Doulting stone with hipped slate roofs. Basement, two storeys and attic. Symmetrical facade of seven windows arranged 2:3:2. Over central section a dentilled pediment on Ionic pilasters. Venetian window in tympanum. Central stone doorcase with pediment and entablature on two engaged Tuscan columns, rusticated door opening, fanlight and panelled door. Keyed, semi-circular headed window on each side. To side sections cornices and plain parapets, sash windows with glazing bars and internal shutters in moulded keyed architraves. Rusticated end pilasters and basement storey. Flight of five steps to door, with urns set at the angles. Five window return elevations, first floor windows have iron balconette. To the rear, a three-storey domestic range, probably C17. Rubble Doulting stone, slate roofs. Wooden casement windows in plain keyed architraves, heavy lead rain water goods-gutters with scalloped edge decoration, pipes - cast square box section with ribbing matching those to main building.
Interior not seen but said to contain a fine Hall and beyond a balustraded staircase arranged around a square, open well and containing interesting paintings, including a portrait originally believed to be of John Wood of Bath but now thought to be of Thomas Prowse, carved rococo decoration to frames of c 1750. The House belonged to the Prowse family in the C18 and was occupied for a time by Thomas Prowse who was elected five times MP for Somerset and declined the Speakership in 1761. Thomas Prowse designed Hatch Court near Taunton (qv).
(RIBA Journal, XLVI, p 536, 1939).
Listing NGR: ST8113149380
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